Monday I woke up feeling sick, that wasn't really ideal... But getting moving and going to class helped and I was feeling better. Since we scored 8 touchdowns on Saturday, it was 40% off at University Bookstore! I wanted a long sleeved shirt and so got one (good thing I went at 10.30, I managed to get a large instead of multiple-xxl). I also saw a sweatshirt, I don't normally wear crew neck sweatshirts but this looked entirely too comfy for me not to have - and my total was just about $40 :D
Back at the house after classes I got to chat with melissa - we're both super excited about the Disney trip and planned out a few themed outfits to wear - check out http://disneybound.tumblr.com/ to see what kinds of things we were looking at :]
I worked on some Psi stuff, then accidentally fell asleep. Oops... :] I didn't really have anything to do until 8 so it was okay.
And at 8 I got dinner with Larn! It was good to get to talk with her again. And we were at Panera till like 9.30 so we got to chat for quite a bit :]
After that I watched some football and put on my new crew neck sweatshirt - it was so comfy!
And I got to talk with my mom :D So all in all it was quite a good day.
Tuesday I needed to run, but the best time for me was before class, alone, and in the dark. I really don't like running alone in the dark, but I survived! :]
Then it was time for my EAS lab exam - this is the first class I've ever had with a lab like this so I really didn't know what to expect. I did fairly well though, so that was nice :]
My intense sunburn was itching... and then it started hurting when I scratched at it. Stupid sun.
After Stat class, I had a registration appointment for next semester - I've been in school for four weeks (or so) and I can't even plan what to register for till October 8th, much less register (that doesn't some till late October). But I guess it works...
I had work that evening, a sound shift. Though I was struggling to figure out why I was scheduled at 4 when they wanted stuff set up at 2.30... I helped with service, though, so I still had something to do.
I was rather tired after that and had an exam the next morning so I was planning on getting to sleep early.
Until the effing fire alarm went off. And my day had been going so well... Everyone cursed out Payton for cooking, it seems to happen to him a lot :]
Forty five minutes later, it was still going off and Glen was over here trying to figure out why the hell it wasn't stopping. Eventually we just turned them all off so that it would shut up.Thankfully the house didn't spontaneously combust that night... :]
Wednesday when I woke up I did a double take at my computer weather thing. 38 degrees outside?? Gross.
My exam in EAS didn't go too badly, I felt pretty confident about it so that was nice. After the rest of my classes I decided to just chill in my room. I'm reading a book now called Born to Run, it's really interesting. So I read till orchestra, and after orchestra my family was going to get Orange Leaf, but we had to schedule around various workout plans, so I watched Indiana Jones with Geoff till everyone was ready :]
We got our Orange Leaf and family time, and then I needed to get some sleep - I had a busy day coming up.
Thursday I got up at 8.45 - sleeping in!
I finished my homework and went to the Farmer's Market - every Thursday it's on campus and I finally remembered to get out there. And I was rather excited - I got a loaf of pumpkin bread and some pretzel rolls, as well as some broccoli and green beans.
After my class, I got lunch with Lauren again :D That was fun.
I went to COM exec then, for maybe 10 minutes. I had work.
And then 7 hours later, I got home again O.o Bloody hell, did that just happen? At least there was another event there, I was able to do something. I was done at 10, I was so glad I didn't have anything due the next day...
Friday was my third day in a row of waking up late, that was annoying. I had class and then work again, only this time it was 6 hours and I was the only one on the second floor O.o That was less than fun.
However, after that I went bowling and to Starry Night with Geoff :] Starry Night is a festival that is held at Northwestern and State streets, however it was cold outside so we decided to watch The Hunt for Red October in the warmth.
Saturday I didn't have to wake up till 9.45 - woo :] I went for a run, yay good runs! It was nice.
Then I made a power grocery store trip - there and back in 30 minutes. That was fun :]
That day was our Psi Day of Service - since we're a band service fraternity and all :] We cleaned up Elliott and then I made myself some tomato soup with a pretzel roll, pumpkin bread and lemonade. It was quite the perfect lunch :D
It's kinda funny though - I didn't like pumpkin till about a year ago, I didn't even like the smell of it. Then, last year I tried a pumpkin cream cheese muffin and now I was super excited when I saw some at the farmer's market on Thursday. It was quite the turnaround :]
Then it was time for football! However, I fell asleep at some point so got a good nap :]
Then a group of people went to Nine Irish Brothers to celebrate Eric getting a new a new job. His current job is in a downward spiral and so it was pretty awesome that he got a new job close to here.
Then it was Doctor Who time! And then more football! I like Saturdays :]
Today I woke up at 10 - guess I'm not going to campus house today... (their service is at 9.30) And then the realisation set in that I've got 4 midterms in the next 3 days... O.o
So I'll watch some football! But there was only one game on one channel, so I did some studying.
This evening I went to Wesley and chapter, and then watched some football till Catherine got back. We've been wanting to watch Mirror Mirror together, and tonight she got it from redbox. While I was waiting, I looked up my final exam schedule and may or may not have died a little inside - 5 semesters and counting of bad schedules... Wednesday I have my two hard finals (vector calc and stat) back to back (10.30-12.30 and 1-3) and then Thursday afternoon is Spanish. Then, get this, EAS is on Saturday from 3.30-5.30pm. Gag me with a spork...
This means that I'll have great schedules for the next three semesters, right? It has to balance out at some point, right??
Then we watched Mirror Mirror, and I enjoyed it. However, I also think that I'm still a 6 year old girl at heart, so there's that... :D
And now I have a midterm tomorrow morning that I don't feel prepared for at all. Freakout mode in 3...2...1...
I can't wait for family day next weekend!
Till then,
-Carly B
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
I swear, there's something in the water...
Just a few notes to add Monday from my last post:
Dammit: http://www.hammerandrails.com/2012/9/10/3313466/robert-marve-injury-update-of-course-it-is-a-torn-acl. Seriously, we have more ACL tears here than anywhere else I've ever heard of!
We had a good rehearsal tonight, and I got a compliment of sorts from one of my brothers, Chris. He's a tuba and they were putting their sousaphones (marching tubas) away before our rehearsal started and he asked how I enjoyed the sports this weekend. I was slightly confused, wondering what he specifically meant, and he said that he knew I really liked sports and football and so was asking how I liked the NFL being back. I mean, I'm not exactly subtle about it (maybe about as subtle as a knife... :] ) but I thought it was kinda sweet that he remembered and thought to ask :] And then I may or may not have been roped into playing tuba in GABS - Gold And Black Sound, the women's basketball pep band. I have a few tuba friends and they said they were going to teach me so that I could play with them. This should be interesting...
After rehearsal I asked Andy about the concert in February. I thought it was on the weekend of the Disney Princess Half Marathon that the over-21 Poole ladies are going to be running, and that was troublesome.
-If you miss a concert, you fail the class.
-I'm not missing the race (yeah, that ain't happening), so I would just not enroll in the class and just play with the group.
-However, to be active in Psi you need to be enrolled in a Band class.
-This means I'd have to go conditional - I'd be a conditional member since I wouldn't be in a band class.
-But I want to take a little brother next spring (if it works out) and conditional members can't take littles.
-This presents a conundrum.
I was ready to plead my case to Andy, and I was willing to do just about anything to make up for the missed concert, but then he told me that it'll be the weekend before the half marathon! Huzzah! I was in a rather smiley mood after that :]
And then I got to fight with my Vector Calculus homework. I did pretty well, considering I missed a class last week (the one I slept through).
The Bengals v. Ravens game was on, so I watched that - it was supposed to be a pretty good game.
Or the Ravens could just destroy the Bengals, that would work too. Joe Flacco had a good game :]
Then the Raiders v. Chargers game came on and the intro showed shots of the seats. Raiders fans are so weird... I only watched one quarter of that game because it was time for me to sleep :]
Tuesday I had planned to be up at 6.30 to run, but then I woke up at 7.40... oops.
But it was definitely IR time - massive amounts of people on Memorial Mall, a ginormous effing tractor outside Weatherill Hall and about 2/3 of the student population was dressed in business formal attire. IR is Industrial Roundtable - a huge engineering-based career fair that takes place over 2 days.
I had class and then took a short nap before work, which was a fairly boring shift so at one point I was helping a coworker study her Japanese vocab.
When I got back to the house, I still had to finish homework so I joined Seth and Catherine in the common room and got that done.
Wednesday I had class in the morning, then randomly found a pretty good article about Walt Disney and how people keep saying he's a racist and anti-Semitic: http://backstagemagic.tumblr.com/post/26684569337
We had a good orchestra rehearsal, and then those of us that were playing joined the outdoor games runsh event for KKPsi and TBS (the band fraternity and sorority). We missed most of the actual outdoor games, but there were still people there so we got to talk with them.
Thursday I had to do some homework so I didn't have time to run in the morning - I decided to wait till after dinner. I had class and exec, and then went to get new running shoes! I knew that I was going to need new shoes before the half marathon in February and I wanted to make sure that they would be broken in before that time. I made it back in time for the house dinner, and after I sat on a couch downstairs for some reading and hanging with Mariah - it was fun :] I got a book on my kindle entitled How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life - it's a mixture of a biography of Walt Disney and learning from his life and actions. I'm really enjoying it :]
Friday was quite a good day. I had class and a chapter services meeting for Psi first. Then I got a scarf - every semester or so there's a booth-thing that sells fair-trade things for a week. This past week it was outside Class of 1950 lecture hall, and on Monday I saw a cute black, brown and grey scarf that I wanted. Well, I then prceeded to forget to go and get it for about 4 days, so I was rather excited when it was still there on Friday :] And the PASE-mobile was right there too, so I got a free shirt for being a PASE member and answered some Purdue trivia and got a gift card to Puccini's. So that was pretty awesome :]
After my last class of the day, I debated about going to see Finding Nemo in 3d, but that meant that I'd actually have to go over to the theater. So staying in and reading How to Be Like Walt won :] It's very interesting, I'm learning all sorts of fun stuff. Like how Walt and Lillian Disney first met and all - the story of how he proposed is adorable :D
There were two girls that worked at the Disney company, Kathleen and Lillian. Normally Walt would give the two rides home, since he was just that kind of guy - didn't want to make them walk or have to ride a bus or something like that. Normally he would drop off Lillian first because that was just the best route. She said that when he started dropping off the other girl first, that was when she realised that he was interested. One evening, he asked her she would introduce him to her sister if he bought a suit (she was from Idaho, her sister lived in LA and Lillian was staying with her while working at Disney). He got the suit and met Lillian's sister and they all enjoyed it, she liked him and he liked her and everyone was happy. One day while driving around, Walt turned to Lillian and said 'You know, this Ford's getting pretty beat up. You're a practical girl, which should I buy - a new car or an engagement ring for your finger?' I was like 'Aww!' :D
I read from after class (around 1.30) till like 7.45 and planned on staying in all evening, however, Matt Damon and the Bourne Identity wound up being enough to tempt me out. Oh, and hanging with Geoff too ;D
Saturday I had work at 5.30 O.o And while there I inadvertently did the splits - ouch. I just kinda went down and stayed down for a moment. Casey asked if I was ok, I said I was but I just needed to not move for a few seconds... That was fun...
Then it was a football game! Woo! And we won too :] Unfortunately, it also meant that football game burns are back... Last game it was dark and late enough that I didn't get burned, but for noon games the sun is to my left in the student section, so the left side of my face and neck got burned. Blast.
After the game I went to Chipotle to get some foods, and after that Geoff came over so I had a good afternoon :]
Then it was time for Doctor Who! It was a party: me, Geoff, Seth, Catherine and Mario were all there.
And my hips were still hurting from doing the splits that morning... that was annoying.
Today I wokke up in time to go to the 9.30 Campus House service (and I wasn't expecting to wake up till 9.30 or so, that was surprising. It was a good service, and meant that I had time to go for a run after. As I was stretching and icing I put the tv on a football channel, but then accidentally took an hour nap. Heh, didn't mean for that one to happen...
I did sound at Wesley, so once the band was done rehearsing it turned into me and Jason fighting against time and the Wesley computer. Dale wasn't there, so we had to run the powerpoint that shows song lyrics and scripture to people. That was fun, but we actually got it up before they sang more than one verse of the first song, so we made it! :]
After Wesley was chapter, and after chapter was an Insomnia cookie run :]
It wasn't quite sleepy time for me, so I decided to watch a Disney movie! I was going to watch Beauty and the Beast in my room, but Seth and Mariah also wanted to watch a movie so Seth, Mariah, David, Christian and I all wound up watching The Little Mermaid (for the record, David and Seth are the ones that chose that one, not me or Mariah :P ). That was fun, but now it is sleepy time and I have class tomorrow morning so I shall say good night. Later!
-Carly
'We make movies that children aren't embarassed to take their parents to.'
-Walt Disney
Dammit: http://www.hammerandrails.com/2012/9/10/3313466/robert-marve-injury-update-of-course-it-is-a-torn-acl. Seriously, we have more ACL tears here than anywhere else I've ever heard of!
We had a good rehearsal tonight, and I got a compliment of sorts from one of my brothers, Chris. He's a tuba and they were putting their sousaphones (marching tubas) away before our rehearsal started and he asked how I enjoyed the sports this weekend. I was slightly confused, wondering what he specifically meant, and he said that he knew I really liked sports and football and so was asking how I liked the NFL being back. I mean, I'm not exactly subtle about it (maybe about as subtle as a knife... :] ) but I thought it was kinda sweet that he remembered and thought to ask :] And then I may or may not have been roped into playing tuba in GABS - Gold And Black Sound, the women's basketball pep band. I have a few tuba friends and they said they were going to teach me so that I could play with them. This should be interesting...
After rehearsal I asked Andy about the concert in February. I thought it was on the weekend of the Disney Princess Half Marathon that the over-21 Poole ladies are going to be running, and that was troublesome.
-If you miss a concert, you fail the class.
-I'm not missing the race (yeah, that ain't happening), so I would just not enroll in the class and just play with the group.
-However, to be active in Psi you need to be enrolled in a Band class.
-This means I'd have to go conditional - I'd be a conditional member since I wouldn't be in a band class.
-But I want to take a little brother next spring (if it works out) and conditional members can't take littles.
-This presents a conundrum.
I was ready to plead my case to Andy, and I was willing to do just about anything to make up for the missed concert, but then he told me that it'll be the weekend before the half marathon! Huzzah! I was in a rather smiley mood after that :]
And then I got to fight with my Vector Calculus homework. I did pretty well, considering I missed a class last week (the one I slept through).
The Bengals v. Ravens game was on, so I watched that - it was supposed to be a pretty good game.
Or the Ravens could just destroy the Bengals, that would work too. Joe Flacco had a good game :]
Then the Raiders v. Chargers game came on and the intro showed shots of the seats. Raiders fans are so weird... I only watched one quarter of that game because it was time for me to sleep :]
Tuesday I had planned to be up at 6.30 to run, but then I woke up at 7.40... oops.
But it was definitely IR time - massive amounts of people on Memorial Mall, a ginormous effing tractor outside Weatherill Hall and about 2/3 of the student population was dressed in business formal attire. IR is Industrial Roundtable - a huge engineering-based career fair that takes place over 2 days.
I had class and then took a short nap before work, which was a fairly boring shift so at one point I was helping a coworker study her Japanese vocab.
When I got back to the house, I still had to finish homework so I joined Seth and Catherine in the common room and got that done.
Wednesday I had class in the morning, then randomly found a pretty good article about Walt Disney and how people keep saying he's a racist and anti-Semitic: http://backstagemagic.tumblr.com/post/26684569337
We had a good orchestra rehearsal, and then those of us that were playing joined the outdoor games runsh event for KKPsi and TBS (the band fraternity and sorority). We missed most of the actual outdoor games, but there were still people there so we got to talk with them.
Thursday I had to do some homework so I didn't have time to run in the morning - I decided to wait till after dinner. I had class and exec, and then went to get new running shoes! I knew that I was going to need new shoes before the half marathon in February and I wanted to make sure that they would be broken in before that time. I made it back in time for the house dinner, and after I sat on a couch downstairs for some reading and hanging with Mariah - it was fun :] I got a book on my kindle entitled How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life - it's a mixture of a biography of Walt Disney and learning from his life and actions. I'm really enjoying it :]
Friday was quite a good day. I had class and a chapter services meeting for Psi first. Then I got a scarf - every semester or so there's a booth-thing that sells fair-trade things for a week. This past week it was outside Class of 1950 lecture hall, and on Monday I saw a cute black, brown and grey scarf that I wanted. Well, I then prceeded to forget to go and get it for about 4 days, so I was rather excited when it was still there on Friday :] And the PASE-mobile was right there too, so I got a free shirt for being a PASE member and answered some Purdue trivia and got a gift card to Puccini's. So that was pretty awesome :]
After my last class of the day, I debated about going to see Finding Nemo in 3d, but that meant that I'd actually have to go over to the theater. So staying in and reading How to Be Like Walt won :] It's very interesting, I'm learning all sorts of fun stuff. Like how Walt and Lillian Disney first met and all - the story of how he proposed is adorable :D
There were two girls that worked at the Disney company, Kathleen and Lillian. Normally Walt would give the two rides home, since he was just that kind of guy - didn't want to make them walk or have to ride a bus or something like that. Normally he would drop off Lillian first because that was just the best route. She said that when he started dropping off the other girl first, that was when she realised that he was interested. One evening, he asked her she would introduce him to her sister if he bought a suit (she was from Idaho, her sister lived in LA and Lillian was staying with her while working at Disney). He got the suit and met Lillian's sister and they all enjoyed it, she liked him and he liked her and everyone was happy. One day while driving around, Walt turned to Lillian and said 'You know, this Ford's getting pretty beat up. You're a practical girl, which should I buy - a new car or an engagement ring for your finger?' I was like 'Aww!' :D
I read from after class (around 1.30) till like 7.45 and planned on staying in all evening, however, Matt Damon and the Bourne Identity wound up being enough to tempt me out. Oh, and hanging with Geoff too ;D
Saturday I had work at 5.30 O.o And while there I inadvertently did the splits - ouch. I just kinda went down and stayed down for a moment. Casey asked if I was ok, I said I was but I just needed to not move for a few seconds... That was fun...
Then it was a football game! Woo! And we won too :] Unfortunately, it also meant that football game burns are back... Last game it was dark and late enough that I didn't get burned, but for noon games the sun is to my left in the student section, so the left side of my face and neck got burned. Blast.
After the game I went to Chipotle to get some foods, and after that Geoff came over so I had a good afternoon :]
Then it was time for Doctor Who! It was a party: me, Geoff, Seth, Catherine and Mario were all there.
And my hips were still hurting from doing the splits that morning... that was annoying.
Today I wokke up in time to go to the 9.30 Campus House service (and I wasn't expecting to wake up till 9.30 or so, that was surprising. It was a good service, and meant that I had time to go for a run after. As I was stretching and icing I put the tv on a football channel, but then accidentally took an hour nap. Heh, didn't mean for that one to happen...
I did sound at Wesley, so once the band was done rehearsing it turned into me and Jason fighting against time and the Wesley computer. Dale wasn't there, so we had to run the powerpoint that shows song lyrics and scripture to people. That was fun, but we actually got it up before they sang more than one verse of the first song, so we made it! :]
After Wesley was chapter, and after chapter was an Insomnia cookie run :]
It wasn't quite sleepy time for me, so I decided to watch a Disney movie! I was going to watch Beauty and the Beast in my room, but Seth and Mariah also wanted to watch a movie so Seth, Mariah, David, Christian and I all wound up watching The Little Mermaid (for the record, David and Seth are the ones that chose that one, not me or Mariah :P ). That was fun, but now it is sleepy time and I have class tomorrow morning so I shall say good night. Later!
-Carly
'We make movies that children aren't embarassed to take their parents to.'
-Walt Disney
Monday, September 10, 2012
Go back to Foot Locker!
Sorry for the late post, I was hella tired last night.
So last Monday was Labor day, only I forgot when I woke up at 7.45 (I normally get up at 6.30 and leave the house at 8). I remembered before I got out of bed, though, I got to sleep in till 9.30 :]
I went for a run, but then in the shower afterwards my shamrock necklace broke :[ It's one of the things I wear all the time, so I kept trying to play with it but it wasn't there. Catherine had an extra necklace chain that she said I could have though, so now I have it on again :]
Pretty much all afternoon I had a Disney homework marathon with Catherine. That was pretty fun, we just kinda watched movies and chatted while working on stuff.
Tuesday we had an earthquake lab in EAS. There was one section where we got to see where earthquakes have occurred worldwide since 1960 - look at all those that occurred in California! And people wonder how I don't wake up when there's an earthquake out here... That was a fun lab :]
After Stat, I looked at the weather. 85, feels like 92 - it's a toasty one.
I worked on some homework and then decided to take an hour nap. Then when I woke up three hours later, I was somehow still tired. And had to work on homework again. I already couldn't wait for the weekend, and it was only Tueday...
And it only got better on Wednesday morning. I had a rather difficult time waking up, then felt like crap all through my EAS lecture. I decided to skip vector calc class to sleep - othersise I probably would've passed out in the middle of class. I went to Wesley and took an hour and a half nap on a couch and felt exponentially better, so that was nice.
After my last class (Spanish, in case you were curious) I got back to the house and had a package from my mommy! As I walked up to my room, I thought it might be cookies, but then I opened it and it definitely wasn't - it was a box o' random goodies - including trail mix and The Proposal :D
And again after orchestra I had a headache and realised that I hadn't actually eaten dinner - heh, that night've helped...
Thursday I woke up at 8 - sleeping in! :]
I went for a run and then to my one class of the day - which is quite nice, I might add :] We had a Wesley exec meeting, then it was time for the house dinner. You might be able to tell, I didn't really do all that much on Thursday :]
Friday my football weekend began! I woke up to a text from Nicole asking where to start watching Doctor Who, to which I sent back a 5 page response, heh... :]
Quickly after my classes (it was supposed to storm later on), I started the drive home and Geoff joined me - it was turning into quite the good weekend already :]
And I'm rather glad we drove when we did - storms were projected to hit northwestern Indiana as we watched the news from home.
Geoff, me and my parents drove out to Buffalo Grove to watch Ricky's footballl game - and it was a bit chilly, the wind wasn't helping matters at all. And they were so close! There were a number of opportunities that they just couldn't capitalise on. There was one time when the refs made a pretty bad call (more often than not, at those games) and my dad yelled 'Go back to Foot Locker!' at them, the Hoffman student section was laughing and some of the Hoffman players appreciated it too. And Geoff understood where my football enthusiasm comes from, seeing my parents yelling too :]
Saturday my dad checked on some things in my car - I'm glad he thinks of these things since I never do :]
Then it was time for some football! We watched the Virginia Tech game on a laptop while the Penn State game was on tv, but then it was time for Purdue v. Notre Dame. It started out rather promising, but we still lost. And Marve got hurt (hoping to God that it's not another ACL issue). Blast.
That evening, Geoff and I watched Doctor Who and enjoyed that :] Then it was time to sleep.
Sunday morning was mostly getting ready for the party, my parents host a cookout for the first Bears home game of the season. That was one of the main reasons for me going home this weekend, as well as getting to see my dad again :]
It was also fun to see the various people that were there again. And yay football! The first Bears drive was scary, but they got better :]
I didn't want to get my Bears shirt out of my trunk (there's a ton of stuff on top of it right now) so I wore an Eagles shirt on Sunday, I'm just the black sheep in all of my families :] (I'm the non-band player in my Psi family.)
Geoff and I wanted to make it back to WLaf in time for chapter, so we left at the beginning of the fourth quarter to drive back down. And then after chapter I had to do some homework - I always say that I'm going to do homework at home but it never actually happens...
But there was more football on! I like Payton Manning, so it was nice to see him doing well on the Broncos after being out all last season.
Then today I really really didn't want to get up... >.< I did manage though, and went to classes this morning. This afternoon I've mostly just relaxed and read, and I talked with Seth for a bit - I haven't seen him in a bit. I've got orchestra in 2 hours, then I'll probably work on more homework while watching some Monday Night Football. This week should be interesting, I'm already low on sleep. Is it the weekend yet?? :]
Till then,
-Carly
So last Monday was Labor day, only I forgot when I woke up at 7.45 (I normally get up at 6.30 and leave the house at 8). I remembered before I got out of bed, though, I got to sleep in till 9.30 :]
I went for a run, but then in the shower afterwards my shamrock necklace broke :[ It's one of the things I wear all the time, so I kept trying to play with it but it wasn't there. Catherine had an extra necklace chain that she said I could have though, so now I have it on again :]
Pretty much all afternoon I had a Disney homework marathon with Catherine. That was pretty fun, we just kinda watched movies and chatted while working on stuff.
Tuesday we had an earthquake lab in EAS. There was one section where we got to see where earthquakes have occurred worldwide since 1960 - look at all those that occurred in California! And people wonder how I don't wake up when there's an earthquake out here... That was a fun lab :]
After Stat, I looked at the weather. 85, feels like 92 - it's a toasty one.
I worked on some homework and then decided to take an hour nap. Then when I woke up three hours later, I was somehow still tired. And had to work on homework again. I already couldn't wait for the weekend, and it was only Tueday...
And it only got better on Wednesday morning. I had a rather difficult time waking up, then felt like crap all through my EAS lecture. I decided to skip vector calc class to sleep - othersise I probably would've passed out in the middle of class. I went to Wesley and took an hour and a half nap on a couch and felt exponentially better, so that was nice.
After my last class (Spanish, in case you were curious) I got back to the house and had a package from my mommy! As I walked up to my room, I thought it might be cookies, but then I opened it and it definitely wasn't - it was a box o' random goodies - including trail mix and The Proposal :D
And again after orchestra I had a headache and realised that I hadn't actually eaten dinner - heh, that night've helped...
Thursday I woke up at 8 - sleeping in! :]
I went for a run and then to my one class of the day - which is quite nice, I might add :] We had a Wesley exec meeting, then it was time for the house dinner. You might be able to tell, I didn't really do all that much on Thursday :]
Friday my football weekend began! I woke up to a text from Nicole asking where to start watching Doctor Who, to which I sent back a 5 page response, heh... :]
Quickly after my classes (it was supposed to storm later on), I started the drive home and Geoff joined me - it was turning into quite the good weekend already :]
And I'm rather glad we drove when we did - storms were projected to hit northwestern Indiana as we watched the news from home.
Geoff, me and my parents drove out to Buffalo Grove to watch Ricky's footballl game - and it was a bit chilly, the wind wasn't helping matters at all. And they were so close! There were a number of opportunities that they just couldn't capitalise on. There was one time when the refs made a pretty bad call (more often than not, at those games) and my dad yelled 'Go back to Foot Locker!' at them, the Hoffman student section was laughing and some of the Hoffman players appreciated it too. And Geoff understood where my football enthusiasm comes from, seeing my parents yelling too :]
Saturday my dad checked on some things in my car - I'm glad he thinks of these things since I never do :]
Then it was time for some football! We watched the Virginia Tech game on a laptop while the Penn State game was on tv, but then it was time for Purdue v. Notre Dame. It started out rather promising, but we still lost. And Marve got hurt (hoping to God that it's not another ACL issue). Blast.
That evening, Geoff and I watched Doctor Who and enjoyed that :] Then it was time to sleep.
Sunday morning was mostly getting ready for the party, my parents host a cookout for the first Bears home game of the season. That was one of the main reasons for me going home this weekend, as well as getting to see my dad again :]
It was also fun to see the various people that were there again. And yay football! The first Bears drive was scary, but they got better :]
I didn't want to get my Bears shirt out of my trunk (there's a ton of stuff on top of it right now) so I wore an Eagles shirt on Sunday, I'm just the black sheep in all of my families :] (I'm the non-band player in my Psi family.)
Geoff and I wanted to make it back to WLaf in time for chapter, so we left at the beginning of the fourth quarter to drive back down. And then after chapter I had to do some homework - I always say that I'm going to do homework at home but it never actually happens...
But there was more football on! I like Payton Manning, so it was nice to see him doing well on the Broncos after being out all last season.
Then today I really really didn't want to get up... >.< I did manage though, and went to classes this morning. This afternoon I've mostly just relaxed and read, and I talked with Seth for a bit - I haven't seen him in a bit. I've got orchestra in 2 hours, then I'll probably work on more homework while watching some Monday Night Football. This week should be interesting, I'm already low on sleep. Is it the weekend yet?? :]
Till then,
-Carly
Sunday, September 2, 2012
They cuss a lot.
Monday was nice - I had a pretty productive day and it was only 1.30 when I got back to the house. I needed some homework help so I went to a teacher's office hours, then got a work locker (so now I don't have to haul everything around with me anymore, it's quite nice :] ) and bought my American Idiot tickets (I'm so excited!) and finally I printed off some things, like my football tickets and vocab for my Spanish class. But then, later in the afternoon, productivity slightly diminished... Yay reading!
After orchestra I did some more reading and watched Top Gear (a British car show) with Seth and Payton. That was hilarious, they did one episode where they had to build their own motor home and at the end two of the three hosts acidentally pushed the third's off a cliff - intending to freak him out by pushing it up to the edge, it started rolling and they couldn't stop it. We were cracking up :] Unfortunately, after that my jean shorts got caught on my door and ripped up the side, so they're shot - looks like I'm going to be wearing skirts till I can get to a store...
Tuesday went something like this:
+class
+read
+class
+read
+work
+read
+oh, I should prob do some homework too... while watching the Lion King! To Which I proceeded to quote the whole movie by heart as I'm only half-watching it. Heh, you'd think I've seen the movie a few times or something...
Wednesday I had class in the morning and then lunch with one of my brothers, Lauren Trepanier :] That was fun, I hadn't seen her since last semester. I wanted to continue my homework with a movie pattern, but trying to watch Beauty and the Beast doesn't work so well when it's a digital book... Blast. I made it work tho - just write the problems on a separate paper :]
In orchestra we had the whole orchestra there - it was so nice to hear what the music actually sounds like! It was weird with just strings. And after that I went to Geoff's apartment and we watched Fringe with his roommates. That was fun, it's an interesting show.
Thursday I was all excited to be able to sleep till 9 - I didn't have class till noon. Then the amoke alarm went off at 7.45 - well I guess that's as good a time as any to get up...
That meant that I got to get a run in and go to Target so I'd actually have jean shorts again - yay :]
After class, I went to Wesley and read in a hammock again while waiting for exec to start :D We've had some beautiful days recently.
When I got back to the house after exec, I came onto the blog site to make notes of what happened and noticed that I've got over 1000 page views - crazy.
We had our house dinner, and then I called and got to chat with Melissa :D That was fun, I haven't talked to her in a while.
Friday morning was a little full, I had class and a KKPsi chapter services meeting, then one more class before I could get some food :] And ice cream :D
I had a gift card to FYE, a movie/music/pop culture store and I looked in the Disney section and found The Little Mermaid!!! I've been wanting this one for so long!! And I don't have to wait for it to come out of the vault when it's in 3D! I was rather excited :] That called for mini-marthon - I watched The Little Mermaid and The Aristocats - yay Disney movies :D
And then I got to talk with my mom and dad :D I can't wait to see them next weekend.
A few people from Wesley were going to the soccer match that night so I joined them - and we won! That was fun :]
When I got back to the house, the last episode of Doctor Who season 5 was on so I watched that with Seth and then was rather tired and so went to sleep.
Saturday = game day! Yay football! I saw this funny article on ESPN - http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/56433/best-caseworst-case-purdue - the best case one is pretty funny, unfortunately the worst case one is all too easy to see... (As a side note, the guy was only 3 points off in the prediction of the first game score :] )
Before the game, I had a shift and we served the football team lunch - goodness they ate a lot. We were running around to try and keep the buffett line filled.
And then it was time for some football! I was so excited :D And it didn't monsoon, instead it was a bit toasty. But we won! so that was nice :]
After the game, Geoff came over to the house to get some food and watch the Doctor Who season 7 premier :D Seth was there, so it was a party. We were only missing Catherine and Mario - they were seeing American Idiot that night. Geoff doesn't get BBC America in university housing, so I think I might see this becoming a pattern... (Except next weekend since I'll be home.)
One kinda funny thing about watching with 2 guys was when a serious part happened in the episode - two characters had a pretty frank conversation about their relationship and the girl said she was giving up the guy because she can't have kids and knows he really wants them - Seth and Geoff didn't understand why that meant she was breaking up with him, I said it made sense and they just weren't paying attention.
And after the episode, football was on! Michigan was getting schlapped by Bama so we watched Clemson v. Auburn - that was a slightly more interesting game.
This morning, I got up and went to Campus House with Lauren T, she goes there and I wanted to check it out. It was a good service, but when we went there it wasn't raining and when we left it was. Oops.
But that meant it was perfect weather for potato soup! I made some (read as: fighting with the ziploc bag and my bowl...) and enjoyed the warmth and reading before going to Wesley. I was supposed to work the sound board for the band, but there wasn't a band. In fact, when I got to the building there was no one there, so I took an hour and a half nap on a couch. And then Shilpa, who was going to be playing the piano for the hymns, is sick today so Dale and I found background music for the hymns and played that through the computer - my playing with the soundboard mostly involved hitting mute once we wanted the music to stop since it was on a loop.
After dinner, it was time for me to see American Idiot!! I was so excited, I've been a Green Day fan for almost as long as I can remember. And I really enjoyed the show, not just the music either (though I had to make a conscious effort not to sing along with the songs - I wanted to). I think I was one of the few people sitting around me that understood what was going on - during inttermission I heard a lot of people saying how they really didn't know what was going on. I also heard a woman say 'They cuss a lot' and I really wanted to say something along the lines of 'Have you ever listened to Green Day songs before?' They don't swear like every other word, but they're in there and the themes are pretty strong. Of course, the woman also asked whether it was based on the band (it's really not) so I'm not sure how informed she was going in.
Elliott was like an ice box - I was so cold! And driving back I really wanted to listen to the musics so that's what I'm doing right now :] Thank goodness tomorrow's Labor Day, it'll be nice to have a more relaxing day after the weekend I've had. It's been an amazing weekend, just busy.
Peace.
-Carly B
After orchestra I did some more reading and watched Top Gear (a British car show) with Seth and Payton. That was hilarious, they did one episode where they had to build their own motor home and at the end two of the three hosts acidentally pushed the third's off a cliff - intending to freak him out by pushing it up to the edge, it started rolling and they couldn't stop it. We were cracking up :] Unfortunately, after that my jean shorts got caught on my door and ripped up the side, so they're shot - looks like I'm going to be wearing skirts till I can get to a store...
Tuesday went something like this:
+class
+read
+class
+read
+work
+read
+oh, I should prob do some homework too... while watching the Lion King! To Which I proceeded to quote the whole movie by heart as I'm only half-watching it. Heh, you'd think I've seen the movie a few times or something...
Wednesday I had class in the morning and then lunch with one of my brothers, Lauren Trepanier :] That was fun, I hadn't seen her since last semester. I wanted to continue my homework with a movie pattern, but trying to watch Beauty and the Beast doesn't work so well when it's a digital book... Blast. I made it work tho - just write the problems on a separate paper :]
In orchestra we had the whole orchestra there - it was so nice to hear what the music actually sounds like! It was weird with just strings. And after that I went to Geoff's apartment and we watched Fringe with his roommates. That was fun, it's an interesting show.
Thursday I was all excited to be able to sleep till 9 - I didn't have class till noon. Then the amoke alarm went off at 7.45 - well I guess that's as good a time as any to get up...
That meant that I got to get a run in and go to Target so I'd actually have jean shorts again - yay :]
After class, I went to Wesley and read in a hammock again while waiting for exec to start :D We've had some beautiful days recently.
When I got back to the house after exec, I came onto the blog site to make notes of what happened and noticed that I've got over 1000 page views - crazy.
We had our house dinner, and then I called and got to chat with Melissa :D That was fun, I haven't talked to her in a while.
Friday morning was a little full, I had class and a KKPsi chapter services meeting, then one more class before I could get some food :] And ice cream :D
I had a gift card to FYE, a movie/music/pop culture store and I looked in the Disney section and found The Little Mermaid!!! I've been wanting this one for so long!! And I don't have to wait for it to come out of the vault when it's in 3D! I was rather excited :] That called for mini-marthon - I watched The Little Mermaid and The Aristocats - yay Disney movies :D
And then I got to talk with my mom and dad :D I can't wait to see them next weekend.
A few people from Wesley were going to the soccer match that night so I joined them - and we won! That was fun :]
When I got back to the house, the last episode of Doctor Who season 5 was on so I watched that with Seth and then was rather tired and so went to sleep.
Saturday = game day! Yay football! I saw this funny article on ESPN - http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/56433/best-caseworst-case-purdue - the best case one is pretty funny, unfortunately the worst case one is all too easy to see... (As a side note, the guy was only 3 points off in the prediction of the first game score :] )
Before the game, I had a shift and we served the football team lunch - goodness they ate a lot. We were running around to try and keep the buffett line filled.
And then it was time for some football! I was so excited :D And it didn't monsoon, instead it was a bit toasty. But we won! so that was nice :]
After the game, Geoff came over to the house to get some food and watch the Doctor Who season 7 premier :D Seth was there, so it was a party. We were only missing Catherine and Mario - they were seeing American Idiot that night. Geoff doesn't get BBC America in university housing, so I think I might see this becoming a pattern... (Except next weekend since I'll be home.)
One kinda funny thing about watching with 2 guys was when a serious part happened in the episode - two characters had a pretty frank conversation about their relationship and the girl said she was giving up the guy because she can't have kids and knows he really wants them - Seth and Geoff didn't understand why that meant she was breaking up with him, I said it made sense and they just weren't paying attention.
And after the episode, football was on! Michigan was getting schlapped by Bama so we watched Clemson v. Auburn - that was a slightly more interesting game.
This morning, I got up and went to Campus House with Lauren T, she goes there and I wanted to check it out. It was a good service, but when we went there it wasn't raining and when we left it was. Oops.
But that meant it was perfect weather for potato soup! I made some (read as: fighting with the ziploc bag and my bowl...) and enjoyed the warmth and reading before going to Wesley. I was supposed to work the sound board for the band, but there wasn't a band. In fact, when I got to the building there was no one there, so I took an hour and a half nap on a couch. And then Shilpa, who was going to be playing the piano for the hymns, is sick today so Dale and I found background music for the hymns and played that through the computer - my playing with the soundboard mostly involved hitting mute once we wanted the music to stop since it was on a loop.
After dinner, it was time for me to see American Idiot!! I was so excited, I've been a Green Day fan for almost as long as I can remember. And I really enjoyed the show, not just the music either (though I had to make a conscious effort not to sing along with the songs - I wanted to). I think I was one of the few people sitting around me that understood what was going on - during inttermission I heard a lot of people saying how they really didn't know what was going on. I also heard a woman say 'They cuss a lot' and I really wanted to say something along the lines of 'Have you ever listened to Green Day songs before?' They don't swear like every other word, but they're in there and the themes are pretty strong. Of course, the woman also asked whether it was based on the band (it's really not) so I'm not sure how informed she was going in.
Elliott was like an ice box - I was so cold! And driving back I really wanted to listen to the musics so that's what I'm doing right now :] Thank goodness tomorrow's Labor Day, it'll be nice to have a more relaxing day after the weekend I've had. It's been an amazing weekend, just busy.
Peace.
-Carly B
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Good vendor of shoes!
So I was watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T2amZSYjt6Q#t=2170s and cracked up at this part, till about 37.40 or so (it starts at 36.10). That's where the title comes from :]
On Monday classes started - crazy. And I could understand all of my professors so that was a definite bonus :D
The annoying thing was online last week it said that there was no info recieved for the MA362 book. However, when I checked after my professor said there was a book, the info was there. I was annoyed.
But then was orchestra - and there were so many basses! I'm playing bass this semester, and normally we have about two, maybe three, but there are 5 of us in symphony and evidently philharmonic has 7. We were laughing about that :]
Tuesday in my 3 hour EAS lab slot we had a 1 hour lab, so that was nice. I got to eat my lunch before my STAT class and not rush. When my TA wrote her office location on the board, I was confused - it was HAMP and I wondered what the heck building that was. Evidently they renamed the Civil Engineering Building (formerly CIVL) to the Hampton building for civil engineering (or something similar). I'm glad my schedule said CIVL still, I would've had no idea where the deuce I was supposed to go.
And I'm retaking the STAT416 class I took last semester with a different teacher so hopefully this time around it goes better. So far so good.
My run was warm - it was a bit toasty outside. But then I got to have dinner and watch Pirates with Colleen so that was fun :D I miss not living with her, she's a great friend.
Wednesday I had class and then The Aristocats is out of the vault so I made a quick trip to Walmart for that - I love that movie :] I also got a haircut so my hair's back to the length I like it.
After orchestra there was a Welcome Back Bash thing for the bands so I went to see some of my brothers that I hadn't seen all summer. That was fun, but oh my goodness there were so many mosquitos! O.o Because of that, when I woke up on Thursday it looked like I had chicken pox on my legs (it still does on Sunday >.< ) However I only had one class that day so that was nice :D After that I went to Wesley to read in a hammock :] However, I finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and didn't know what next, I narrowed it down to Star Wars and decided to ask 'Kyle, do I want to read Thrawn or Xwing?' He said Xwing, so I'm going through those books now :]
We had our first COM exec meeting, and it went well. This semester should be good.
Unfortunately (that might not be the best word to use, but oh well) Kyle got a call and a job offer that afternoon, so now he's moving out again :[ It's good for him, and he'll be around, but a bunch of people (myself included) were excited about having him around for more time.
I went back to Agate and did some more reading, taking a break to have the house dinner.
Friday I'd planned on going to class and then going to see the Dark Knight Rises and having a movie afternoon/night. However, Instead I had some food and read an hour or so, then I had to start on homework.
Then, about 5 hours later, I said eff this, I want to stargaze! sO I drove out to the Robyne's and enjoyed the night sky with Geoff. That was nice :]
I don't remember walking into a tree Friday night, but Saturday morning I woke up with a scab on my chin - I'm all kinds of confused since I don't know how it happened. Kyle suggested that I slepwalked into my door, I said I walk into enough open doors that I'd believe it :]
I had work that evening, and it was two weddings. One of the weddings had a rather interesting toast - it wasn't the mother of the bride, but it might've been an aunt or something. She was slurring a bit (the bar had been open for an hour...) and recounted stories about the bride when she was younger, the quirky things she would do. Then she said something along the lines of 'I didn't think there would be anyone who could deal with you!' and continued. However, I missed the second half because I was still just processing what she'd just said. I'm sure she meant it to be funny, like the bride is unique and all, but it didn't quite come across like that. I texted my mom and dad asking them not to say something like that at my wedding... :]
Today I really did not want to wake up. I did mae it though, since I had work at 10.30. Then after that shift we had a staff meeting and then I had church and then was the COM meeting (which was remarkably efficient and good for a COM meeting) and after that I went to chapter and then after chapter a bunch of us went to Red Mango, so I left the house at 10 this morning and got back around 9.45 this evening. So now I plan on either reading or watching an episode of QI and passing out.
Football next week, I'm so excited!!! :D And Doctor Who series 7 starts next Saturday, so I need to remember to get my American Idiot ticket for Sunday. Next weekend's gonna be a good weekend :D
Peace out.
-Carly
On Monday classes started - crazy. And I could understand all of my professors so that was a definite bonus :D
The annoying thing was online last week it said that there was no info recieved for the MA362 book. However, when I checked after my professor said there was a book, the info was there. I was annoyed.
But then was orchestra - and there were so many basses! I'm playing bass this semester, and normally we have about two, maybe three, but there are 5 of us in symphony and evidently philharmonic has 7. We were laughing about that :]
Tuesday in my 3 hour EAS lab slot we had a 1 hour lab, so that was nice. I got to eat my lunch before my STAT class and not rush. When my TA wrote her office location on the board, I was confused - it was HAMP and I wondered what the heck building that was. Evidently they renamed the Civil Engineering Building (formerly CIVL) to the Hampton building for civil engineering (or something similar). I'm glad my schedule said CIVL still, I would've had no idea where the deuce I was supposed to go.
And I'm retaking the STAT416 class I took last semester with a different teacher so hopefully this time around it goes better. So far so good.
My run was warm - it was a bit toasty outside. But then I got to have dinner and watch Pirates with Colleen so that was fun :D I miss not living with her, she's a great friend.
Wednesday I had class and then The Aristocats is out of the vault so I made a quick trip to Walmart for that - I love that movie :] I also got a haircut so my hair's back to the length I like it.
After orchestra there was a Welcome Back Bash thing for the bands so I went to see some of my brothers that I hadn't seen all summer. That was fun, but oh my goodness there were so many mosquitos! O.o Because of that, when I woke up on Thursday it looked like I had chicken pox on my legs (it still does on Sunday >.< ) However I only had one class that day so that was nice :D After that I went to Wesley to read in a hammock :] However, I finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and didn't know what next, I narrowed it down to Star Wars and decided to ask 'Kyle, do I want to read Thrawn or Xwing?' He said Xwing, so I'm going through those books now :]
We had our first COM exec meeting, and it went well. This semester should be good.
Unfortunately (that might not be the best word to use, but oh well) Kyle got a call and a job offer that afternoon, so now he's moving out again :[ It's good for him, and he'll be around, but a bunch of people (myself included) were excited about having him around for more time.
I went back to Agate and did some more reading, taking a break to have the house dinner.
Friday I'd planned on going to class and then going to see the Dark Knight Rises and having a movie afternoon/night. However, Instead I had some food and read an hour or so, then I had to start on homework.
Then, about 5 hours later, I said eff this, I want to stargaze! sO I drove out to the Robyne's and enjoyed the night sky with Geoff. That was nice :]
I don't remember walking into a tree Friday night, but Saturday morning I woke up with a scab on my chin - I'm all kinds of confused since I don't know how it happened. Kyle suggested that I slepwalked into my door, I said I walk into enough open doors that I'd believe it :]
I had work that evening, and it was two weddings. One of the weddings had a rather interesting toast - it wasn't the mother of the bride, but it might've been an aunt or something. She was slurring a bit (the bar had been open for an hour...) and recounted stories about the bride when she was younger, the quirky things she would do. Then she said something along the lines of 'I didn't think there would be anyone who could deal with you!' and continued. However, I missed the second half because I was still just processing what she'd just said. I'm sure she meant it to be funny, like the bride is unique and all, but it didn't quite come across like that. I texted my mom and dad asking them not to say something like that at my wedding... :]
Today I really did not want to wake up. I did mae it though, since I had work at 10.30. Then after that shift we had a staff meeting and then I had church and then was the COM meeting (which was remarkably efficient and good for a COM meeting) and after that I went to chapter and then after chapter a bunch of us went to Red Mango, so I left the house at 10 this morning and got back around 9.45 this evening. So now I plan on either reading or watching an episode of QI and passing out.
Football next week, I'm so excited!!! :D And Doctor Who series 7 starts next Saturday, so I need to remember to get my American Idiot ticket for Sunday. Next weekend's gonna be a good weekend :D
Peace out.
-Carly
"....the human race will spread out among the stars—you just watch them fly. Billions and billions of them, for billions and billions of years. And every single one of them at some point in their lives will look back at this man taking that very first step and they will never ever forget it." -The Doctor
Farewell to a fellow Boilermaker and Brother, one of the most influential men of our lifetimes. RIP Mr Armstrong.
Monday, August 20, 2012
I'm baack :D
Hello again, everyone :D I hope y'all had a good summer, as you can tell by my lack of posts, I didn't so all that much. It was fun though.
So on Monday I felt rather producive. I went to pick up my textbooks and PASE thing - PASE is Purdue Alumni Student Experience and I get a shirt, glass and discounts at places because I'm a member. This year's shirt and glass have the Grand Prix on them - last year it was the Big Bass Drum and my freshman year featured the Old Oaken bucket, the trophy exchanged between us and IU to the winner of our rivalry game every year.
After my various errands, I set about to clean my room (or straighten it up anyways). And that was a success too! I had a rather good day, overall :]
Then it was time for our house dinner - and it's official that the ducts are actually going to be cleaned! Las t winter I had a case of the nosebleeds and I blame the air, so I'm rather excited that it most likely won;t happen again this winter :] And we learned that Kyle Hoos will most likely be back here for the semester :D I'm rather excited, he's a great guyh and fun to have in the house.
On Tuesday I went out for my run, then Shelly was going to run so I went out again with her. And about a quarter mile away from the house while running back, my legs suddenly really wanted to know what the hell I was thinking. I'm glad they didn't argue till the ending of the run, rather than the beginning :]
After that, I did nothing! I was messing around on my computer when I learned that David Tennant was on an episode of QI - how have I never seen this before?? I immediately watched that one, and it was pretty dang funny :] I love QI, it's one of my favourite shows, so it's unfortunate that I can't watch it on tv here - I have to rely on youtube.
Wednesday I had work at 6.30a so I was up at 5.25 - and I'm not sure I slept the best, I had a strange dream (that I couldn't remember once I woke up, just that it was odd). Work went well, and when I got back I got to sleep :D And then I watched some more British television - watching the one episode of QI yesterday got me in the mood so I watched some more :]
Thursday I really did nothing all morning, but then I had a sound shift at 4. Over the summer I was trained to be a sound technician, and I think we're short sound people because the last 10 or so shifts I've been scheduled for have been sound. I did pick up a normal catering shift for yesterday, and that felt weird :]
Friday I had another sound shift - only this one was for both ballrooms and their events were running pretty much simultaneously. That was super fun (more like eff my life). One group was a multicultural welcome event, and the other was a IU School of Medicine welcome thing (they have a campus in the area). The IU people were, how shall I say it, snooty. Whitch ticked me off. The multicultural group was great, it was fun listening to their speakers. But then they started a drumming thing and dancing, while the IU thing was still going and evidently the IU people weren't happy. Courtney, the coordinator, Casey, another sound person/waiter captain, and I were all having just so much fun with them.
When I got back to A-gate, Kyle was here! It's official - he'a a part time Wesley intern for the semester while he continues the job search. However, due to the lovely time I had at work I wasn't in the best of moods, so I fled to my room. And watched some QI - Stephen Fry can fix my mood! :] (Don't jusge me, it worked :P )
Saturday We were all up early for the Aldersgate retreat - through the morning we talked and got to know one another, as well as made decisions about the house and various rules. When we introduced ourselves around the circle, I said that something I was looking forward to was watching football with Kyle again - I'm sure y'all remember how interesting some of those stories were :D
I had another 2-ballroom sound shift, but they were two weddings which was easy peasy - I just set up 2 wireless microphones and made sure that it sounded good when people were talking into them.
After that, I went to a drumline party with Geoff. That was interesting, it was a pretty small apartment so half of the party was outside. And that makes it three college parties I've ever been to - woo! I'm on a roll :D
Sunday I had to open my violin for the first time since it had been sitting in my un-airconditioned room all summer. I'd put it off as long as possible because I was legitimately scared of what I would find, like I was afraid that my violin would be in pieces.
Thankfully, it wasn't. The bow lost a bit of hair (and by a bit, I mean like half) so that will have to be replaced earlier than anticipated, but that's really not as bad as I'd been fearing. (I have a picture up on facebook if you want to see it).
I had yet another sound shift, and this one was extra boring. I just set up a mic and background music and then turned down the music when someone was speaking and turned it back up when no one was.
Woot O.o
Wesley had our first service of the year yesterday - yay :D I played violin with Amanda during the hymn (which is why I had to open it yesterday and couldn't wait three more months :] )
And I officially have the best Big ever :D Larn sent a message to me, Brent, Billy and Jason (the ones of the family that start classes today) that she had a present for us. Since we were the four that are still in school, I thought it would be a fun notebook or something similar.
Then we went to her apartment and saw these things, and it was so much better than what I'd thought :D I love my Big :] Apparently she Googled 'candy poem', which I thought was a pretty sweet search term, it made me giggle :]
I got back to Agate and after a bit of QI it was sleepy time for Carly - I've got class starting at 8.30 today.
And away we go...
-Carly B
So on Monday I felt rather producive. I went to pick up my textbooks and PASE thing - PASE is Purdue Alumni Student Experience and I get a shirt, glass and discounts at places because I'm a member. This year's shirt and glass have the Grand Prix on them - last year it was the Big Bass Drum and my freshman year featured the Old Oaken bucket, the trophy exchanged between us and IU to the winner of our rivalry game every year.
After my various errands, I set about to clean my room (or straighten it up anyways). And that was a success too! I had a rather good day, overall :]
Then it was time for our house dinner - and it's official that the ducts are actually going to be cleaned! Las t winter I had a case of the nosebleeds and I blame the air, so I'm rather excited that it most likely won;t happen again this winter :] And we learned that Kyle Hoos will most likely be back here for the semester :D I'm rather excited, he's a great guyh and fun to have in the house.
On Tuesday I went out for my run, then Shelly was going to run so I went out again with her. And about a quarter mile away from the house while running back, my legs suddenly really wanted to know what the hell I was thinking. I'm glad they didn't argue till the ending of the run, rather than the beginning :]
After that, I did nothing! I was messing around on my computer when I learned that David Tennant was on an episode of QI - how have I never seen this before?? I immediately watched that one, and it was pretty dang funny :] I love QI, it's one of my favourite shows, so it's unfortunate that I can't watch it on tv here - I have to rely on youtube.
Wednesday I had work at 6.30a so I was up at 5.25 - and I'm not sure I slept the best, I had a strange dream (that I couldn't remember once I woke up, just that it was odd). Work went well, and when I got back I got to sleep :D And then I watched some more British television - watching the one episode of QI yesterday got me in the mood so I watched some more :]
Thursday I really did nothing all morning, but then I had a sound shift at 4. Over the summer I was trained to be a sound technician, and I think we're short sound people because the last 10 or so shifts I've been scheduled for have been sound. I did pick up a normal catering shift for yesterday, and that felt weird :]
Friday I had another sound shift - only this one was for both ballrooms and their events were running pretty much simultaneously. That was super fun (more like eff my life). One group was a multicultural welcome event, and the other was a IU School of Medicine welcome thing (they have a campus in the area). The IU people were, how shall I say it, snooty. Whitch ticked me off. The multicultural group was great, it was fun listening to their speakers. But then they started a drumming thing and dancing, while the IU thing was still going and evidently the IU people weren't happy. Courtney, the coordinator, Casey, another sound person/waiter captain, and I were all having just so much fun with them.
When I got back to A-gate, Kyle was here! It's official - he'a a part time Wesley intern for the semester while he continues the job search. However, due to the lovely time I had at work I wasn't in the best of moods, so I fled to my room. And watched some QI - Stephen Fry can fix my mood! :] (Don't jusge me, it worked :P )
Saturday We were all up early for the Aldersgate retreat - through the morning we talked and got to know one another, as well as made decisions about the house and various rules. When we introduced ourselves around the circle, I said that something I was looking forward to was watching football with Kyle again - I'm sure y'all remember how interesting some of those stories were :D
I had another 2-ballroom sound shift, but they were two weddings which was easy peasy - I just set up 2 wireless microphones and made sure that it sounded good when people were talking into them.
After that, I went to a drumline party with Geoff. That was interesting, it was a pretty small apartment so half of the party was outside. And that makes it three college parties I've ever been to - woo! I'm on a roll :D
Sunday I had to open my violin for the first time since it had been sitting in my un-airconditioned room all summer. I'd put it off as long as possible because I was legitimately scared of what I would find, like I was afraid that my violin would be in pieces.
Thankfully, it wasn't. The bow lost a bit of hair (and by a bit, I mean like half) so that will have to be replaced earlier than anticipated, but that's really not as bad as I'd been fearing. (I have a picture up on facebook if you want to see it).
I had yet another sound shift, and this one was extra boring. I just set up a mic and background music and then turned down the music when someone was speaking and turned it back up when no one was.
Woot O.o
Wesley had our first service of the year yesterday - yay :D I played violin with Amanda during the hymn (which is why I had to open it yesterday and couldn't wait three more months :] )
And I officially have the best Big ever :D Larn sent a message to me, Brent, Billy and Jason (the ones of the family that start classes today) that she had a present for us. Since we were the four that are still in school, I thought it would be a fun notebook or something similar.
Then we went to her apartment and saw these things, and it was so much better than what I'd thought :D I love my Big :] Apparently she Googled 'candy poem', which I thought was a pretty sweet search term, it made me giggle :]
I got back to Agate and after a bit of QI it was sleepy time for Carly - I've got class starting at 8.30 today.
And away we go...
-Carly B
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Peace :D
You know, in retrospect I really don't have much of anything at all to share on a weekly basis, so I'll probably just update when I do something cool, like take a trip or blow up fireworks on July 4th or something. Once summer band starts up, I could share what we're going to be playing maybe.
I'll see y'all in August :D
-Carly B
I'll see y'all in August :D
-Carly B
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