Snowy Sunday

Three people I love very much are flying home today. It is snowing so I am thinking about their safety.
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We are celebrating a birthday today.

FINALS!

I am so ready for finals.

My papers are all finished and I have been studying like a maniac. I'm so ready.

well hello December.

It's getting colder, the professors are making us do course evaluations, and they're talking about doing midnight breakfast...

HERE COME FINALS!!!

This Monday marks the beginning of 'dead week' and the following Monday is finals week! I have a lot to do between now and then, but I will get it done. Here's my to-do list:
- STUDY- Greek, Bio, Anthro, and Spanish
- WRITE- two papers for philosophy and a paper for Spanish (written in Spanish)
- Pack!
- Do service (3 times during Dead Week!)
- And other stuff that I am not listing here. This probably involves having a mini-mental breakdown. (that's a joke)

The end is near!

And now I can listen to Christmas music! haha

study break!

Tomorrow I have a bio test, and Wednesday is a practical lab quiz for bio. I've been studying a lot and am trying some new techniques. I hope it helps. I think it is working so far.

I have an "up to 6 pages" paper due on next Tuesday. I've started it already, wrote about a page today. Not a full page but it is about 4/5 of a page. I have general ideas and a sort of outline (not really an outline but it has the concepts I want to hit on) written. The professor wants footnotes, which I haven't used before (or if I have, it was a long time ago). The paper is to be on a topic of my own interest based on the articles in the book. I am writing about language and how it affects people's perception of each other. It's a fascinating topic (I really should be a linguist, eh?).

The following Tuesday (30th) the first round of presentations for Spanish are due. They are 7-10 minutes long and are supposed to have an audio-visual component. I am presenting on conservation in Costa Rica. I haven't done much research yet, but I will. I am just focusing on the paper that is due before then.

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving but I'm trying to keep it fairly low-key. I have at least 4 people who aren't family who want to hang out with me during the break, and I'm hoping I can see all of them. Trying to make plans and still respect family plans and kind of stressing about this when I should be worrying about school! haha.

Okay, time to write some emails...

so...

A lot of things have happened since the last time I posted but honestly I don't want to write about all of it, so I'll give Reader's Digest blurbs about things.

- I've been home 3x and got to see my dear bf all 3 times.
- I went on a fall break trip to Omaha, which was fun, and definitely an eye opening experience as I served supper at a soup kitchen for the first time.
- I've been a listening ear for a friend who is dealing with a major life change, incidents at school, and other stressors.
- I had a cold this/last week but it is clearing up, which makes me happy.
- I bought an exercise mat so I can do Pop Pilates in my dorm room without getting bruises because the floor is hard. (Pop Pilates here with Cassey: http://www.youtube.com/user/blogilates )
- This month I am making a point of posting as a status on Facebook what I am thankful for each day.
- I am enjoying my classes and made it through midterms with all A's except one A-.
- I got to test view "The Candy Shop" by Whitestone Motion Pictures, which is a "fable about child sex trafficking" and it is intended to raise awareness against it. ( http://www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/the-candy-shop/ )
- I have been doing a bit of service lately for Wesley Service and it has been fun.

That's all the (semi) important stuff, so there you go. A post at last. :P

well.

Clearly I didn't write more when I got back from class. Oh well.

Float Sink or Swim was fun, there were antics all around.

The game was good today. We lost but we were close to winning. Pep band is annoyed with the school for hiring a DJ for the game who kept INTERRUPTING us! Jerk. Anyway, he eventually got the picture that we were gonna play and he was gonna stop playing.

Other than that, not much to talk about. Tired.

homecoming and tiredness

This week is Simpson's homecoming. I am not terribly excited, but there's always the chance to watch people be dumb at Float Sink or Swim and Yell Like Hell (the pep rally), and the football game. Honestly, homecoming seems to be a waste. It's just taking my precious energy resources and putting them to a silly use. On the plus side, it's a stress-reliever.

http://www.simpson.edu/slideshows/150kickoff/ This is what was going on last Friday (the 24th).

I am very tired today as I woke up at least four times last night. I haven't been sleeping completely through the night lately, but that was just once a night, usually around 4 am, and I could deal with it. Last night was just a wash. My body aches, as well. I am guessing I may be getting sick. At least I got most of my homework done yesterday, so I was able to take a nap today. I had a dream involving a giant koi fish and me in a pond during this nap...

I finally started working on homework that I've been procrastinating on. I haven't gotten any part of it done, but I have started several parts of it. This makes me feel a little better.

I've been playing my clarinet a lot lately. I have been practicing for Chapel Winds. We will be playing for a special Sunday service at 10 on the 3rd. I will also be singing with Revelation Singers at that service.

On Saturday pep band was in the Log Cabin Days parade and we rode on a tour-trailer with a roof. The roof was a blessing because we were able to play despite the rain! It poured at the end of the parade and we didn't get soaked.

This song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI01P4hCaGM&feature=related has been caught in my head a lot. The video is sort of related but not really.

I have more to talk about but I have to go to class now so I will write another post when I get back.