The End Of All Things

Or just of September.

I miss my RotK soundtrack. . . :(

I got my hair to curl again today. :) It doth make me happy. I looked good today. Or at least I felt like I did. Hah. I had my red leather coat on with my black hair and a black sweater and I wore boots today because it was cooler, so I was taller. :) It was a good day.

Homework should do itself. Oh well.

I think this is the most posts I've ever made in one month. Thirteen. Some people (like Dwarves in The Hobbit) think that thirteen is an unlucky number. I think it's just misunderstood. Actually, I like it because it's prime. =) Seventeen and Nineteen are better though. Eleven is just yucky.

My fingernails have been growing incredibly fast. And they're pretty strong too. It's weird. Must be all the water I have to drink or something. It seemed like a ton when I started, but now it's pretty easy. I think I drink more than I need to, actually. /shrug I don't really pay that much attention to it. I figure it equals out. I do that with a lot of things. It works though.

I need to finish Joshua and get started on Judges. Probably start Judges tomorrow. I lost my lead. It makes me sad. I was so lazy last week. . . . Must do better. Actually, I've been pretty lazy thus far this semester. I mean. . . I've worked hard. Just. . . Not nearly as much as I could. Though last week, I was really tired. I think my body was fighting off sickness, so it was a good thing I slept more than normal. I don't want to get sick. It's never good. . . Colds hang on forever with me.

Anyway. I shall depart now, and probably not post again this month. Especially since tomorrow is the last day. That is so incredibly exciting! =D Two days and it's October! :) That makes me happy. It's less than 60 days till I come home. :) How exciting! =D

Speaking of which, I think there's going to be three of us in the car on the way home. . . That'll be interesting. I've never driven that way with other people in the car. . . Huh. Oh well. Hopefully, it'll be okay. Maybe I'll drive safer because there's more of us there. That's generally what happens. Not that I'm unsafe. It's just different. We might drive at night, and get in around 1am. =D We'll see. Maybe. Hehe!

Well, I'm off. Happy last day of September (tomorrow). :)

Dorms

Have you ever lived in one? They're interesting places. You move into a room with a bunch of people (Yes. Four others = a bunch.) that you don't know, into a bunk that isn't yours (Would you really want it to be though? Honestly?) and under the supervision of a people you don't trust. If you're lucky, you know someone in your dorm. If you're really lucky, you know someone on your floor. First semester, you won't know anyone in your room unless you went to Highschool with them.

Then there's the whole shower situation. Thirty-some girls on a floor. Four showers. Most every one has class either first or second hour. Thankfully, some people take a very long time getting ready in the morning. Those are the ones that get up after the late first-hour people just got out. The late second-hour people? They're usually late to class, 'cause it seems like there are more of 'em. Thankfully, I can hustle in the morning. Like Sunday. I stood in line for the shower for probably fifteen-twenty minutes. I'm so happy I'm not a girly-girl who needs an hour to get ready. I can be ready in twenty minutes if I have to. I might forget something, like mascara, but I'm presentable.

Now onto a different topic: Dorm Society.
Basically, the college took the ministry opportunities and assigned them to specific dorms. Good idea, in my opinion. Helps people get to know people in their own dorm better, helps get more people out for the ministry opportunities; it's good. Even better, because it's not one dorm per ministry. It's two - a girl's dorm and a guy's dorm. =D

I'm in Gould. I like it in Gould. Yes, in the winter it can be a pain because it's tied for the farthest away from campus. But all in all, I'd rather stay here than go to a different dorm, even the new one that has practice rooms and it's own piano. And computers. I like Gould. But I've gotten side-tracked. Our brother dorm is Spurgeon (WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! GO SPURGEON!). I love Spurgeon. :) First, they have the best name for the guys' dorms. (Gould is the best name for the girl's dorms, by the way.) Second, it has a lot of cool guys in it. And third, it's our brother dorm which automatically makes it best. :) Go team spirit. Haha.

We had our Dorm Society kick-off tonight. Hotdogs and munchies over in front of the guy's dorm. We threw around some footballs and played. . . egg-toss? You throw an egg to your partner and try not to get splatted. I lost. Some guy seriously pointed at me and shouted, "YOU LOSE!!!!" I thought it was hilarious. Woot for competition? Haha. Then the good part happened. =D This guy brought out these two items that looked like cricket bats except with padding on them. Sword fight anyone? He and one of his buddies had a duel, and then he was just kind of standing around. So I asked if I could borrow them and challenged Krystle. It was so much fun. =D I wanted to fight a guy, because then I could have gone more all-out-ish. I'd have lost, but that's okay. It would have been fun anyhow. Actually, it was awesome even only fighting girls. It was awesome just to be carrying these sword-like instruments. It made me miss Mike though. . . A lot. I miss hitting your shoulder. . . Haha. ;)

So this is a really long post. But it was a good night, and I didn't get nearly as much homework done that I wanted to. Got to work on that a little more. Toodles!

Missing you

I miss home.

I need to buy some hairspray. I actually got my hair to curl and stay curled. It's a major accomplishment, let me tell ya.

I feel . . . . down, right now. It's sad because I felt quite happy earlier. I don't know what happened to all the happiness.

I'm debating whether or not I should go to the gym. I hurt my foot earlier this week and it still hurts when I walk, so I'm not sure if walking/running is a good idea. On the other hand, I don't want to just use that as an excuse to get out of going to the gym if it's not going to hurt my foot. If only I had all the answers.

I have a Spanish test on Monday. I'm worried about it. We have these quizzes every day, and today a bunch of us missed minor details that gave us all Fs. . . . . We didn't have to hand them in though, thankfully. And I got in trouble for improper formatting of my homework. . . Oddly enough, it was after all this, during my lunch hour that I was incredibly happy. /shrug

I hate it when I can't figure myself out. I mean, I understand not being able to figure out everyone else. But me? Seems like I should get it.

I feel mentally exhausted right now. . . Makes me sad 'cause I still have a lot to get done. I think I really need to go to the gym. Haha. But my hair is curled right now and if I go now then I'll have to take a shower and it'll get wet and go straight again. . .

Wouldn't you hate being stuck in my head? It's like. . . listening to a schizophrenic.

Quickly

Well, I'll try to be quick about it. Sometimes I start blogging and it just won't end though. Moving on.

Today has been okay. Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes I have more interaction with guys. lol Which is nice. It's better than last year's debacle. Hah.

OT quiz went well. Got a 20/20. Bib. Counseling quiz went alright 9 out of possibly 12, but only supposed to be 10, so. . . Not great, not terrible. Funny part? I didn't do the reading last night because the summary isn't due till tonight. So . . . Yeah, it didn't click. Plus, I spent a lot of time on other things last night.

Should I get a job? I don't know. I don't want to work banking hours. I don't particularly want to work at fast food either. Does it really matter though what I want? Honestly? I don't have money. Shouldn't that mean that I go get a job? I don't want to kill myself like I see other people doing though. On the other hand, I don't want to do less than I could because I'm afraid of killing myself. . . Balance is such a hard thing to find.

It was cool to read Uncle Matt's new post about his book. Very interesting.

I don't think I'm going to go to the gym today. I think there are three types of pain. Good pain (like muscle soreness), bad pain (when SOMEthing is definitely wrong), and bad pain with an explanation (such as, you pulled a muscle; you know why it hurts so you don't worry about it, but it's still not good). I've been having bad pain. Don't know why, but it's not good, and yesterday it got worse while I was walking. So. . . Gonna give it a rest today. I'm going to try to get all my 10,000 steps in. Just no aerobic moving for 30 minutes.

I feel really tired right now. . . I need to practice the piano. I think I will do that this afternoon.

Only missing one book now. At least I'm not getting cumulatively behind in it.

Mike needs to work faster on Episode 14. Hah. 'Cause I don't have enough other things to read.

Till next time.

Weekends . . . are boring.

Yeah. It's kind of sad. You'd think there would be something cool going on, something to do. Nope. . . Not at all. There's nothing. . . It's sad.

I watched the newest Burn Notice episode. Hurray for Hulu. Michael Weston is amazing. Cute, too.

My roommates were all gone pretty much all day. Makes for a very quiet room when I'm the only one here. Generally, I wouldn't mind that, but like six hours of it? Yeah, that's a bit much. I wanted to be able to go downstairs and see what Mom was making for dinner. . . Unfortunately, I was in a dorm, not at home. . . Too bad for me, eh?

Steph and I hung out a bit tonight. That was nice. She was in a rotten mood though. Haha. I found it rather entertaining because she's usually pretty sweet and easy-going. It was funny. We watched some old Chuck reruns (on Hulu!! :))

So I've been reading Numbers waiting to read the story of Balaam and I made it there, and I found something I didn't remember before. Numbers 24: 17 - "...there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." Never remember hearing that verse ever referenced from someone behind a pulpit. We all know the verses about the Rod of Jesse and the Root of David, but does anyone remember the Star out of Jacob or the Sceptre rising out of Israel? I didn't anyway.

Also, there's this verse in Exodus. . . Yeah, 24:10-11. Everyone knows that Moses went up into the mountain and God spoke with him. But here, the seventy elders all saw God too. They saw Him. I never knew that before. Maybe I did and I forgot, but I still found it rather amazing and awesome.

So I probably didn't get as much done today as I should have. I know I didn't get as much done as I could have. I so didn't feel like doing anything. . . Er, well, I didn't feel like doing any more reading. I would have jumped and giggled with joy had someone invited me to DO something. . . I ran back to my dorm while it was pouring out, and I did it barefoot. That was fun. I ate Steph's food and drank her water. That's not so fun. I always feel bad.

It's time to sleep. 'Night all.

Life in General

Is. /nod

There's this "Tubby the Tuba" thing tonight at 10pm and my roommates want me to go. I don't wanna go. . . I'll probably end up going. Maybe I'll leave the dorm (sneakily) around 8:30-9pm and then just not come back till they're gone. . . Bwahahaha! I have a plan. Jessica will probably pick up on it when I try to leave. . . . That's the problem with people who think like you - you can't get away with things because they know what you're up to. On the other hand, you don't have to explain things either. They just get it. =)

Have you ever noticed how fun it is to plan devious things? Whether or not you actually do them, it's just fun to figure out how you could do it. . . Like if you worked at a bank. Or McDonald's. You figure out how and when to sneak a few 20s, not because you want the money, just because it's like a puzzle. Maybe you're bored standing in back DT all day. . . Need something to do? Figure out how best to rob the store. ;)

So this guy Sam is funny. Seems like he has a lot of personal integrity too. I like him. Not like, like him like him. Just. . . He seems cool. I like people with personal integrity. But who doesn't? They seem. . . old-fashioned, gentlemanly and in some cases, it seems like they should have a "sir" before their name. "Sir Samuel the Valiant, Knight of the Order of the Cresent Moon." (I want to write another story or finish the ones I have started. I just have no ideas. Bleh.)

Spanish wasn't as good today. I think he was getting frustrated with us. . . :( Either that or he's losing his novelty. . . . Nah. He's still cool. He threw his shoe again today. =) It was funny. Both times it's been because of Ben. Ben learned some Spanish, but he learned some of it wrong, so in some ways I think he's worse off. And then Chrissy. . . . Oy vey. Chrissy is just a ditz. Or something. He'll tell her to do something and she'll just sit there clueless and giggle at him. I think I used to do that to Mom . . . . Sorry Mom.

My books didn't come today. . . . On the other hand, we had giant pretzels this week. =)

I need to go walk on the treadmill. My legs hurt from yesterday though. lol Oh well. It's good for me and I ate too much for lunch today, so. . . I need to. Plus, I can use the time to read more of Numbers. I'm at the exciting part where the earth eats the people. Actually, the last few chapters have pretty much been God's judgment. Sending a plague on the people, sending fire on the people, giving Miriam leprosy, having the Earth eat people, etc. I like to read about God's interaction with Moses though. Moses asks God A LOT to stay His judgment, to not destroy the people. And generally, God doesn't. Or at least He tones it down, so to speak. It's interesting.

I wish my books had come today. . .

Well, I should probably do something more productive than blogging.

Burning Time

Dave called me yesterday to talk about a book. It's nice how fantasy brings a family together. lol No, really. I like that we can enjoy the same things. Although, I probably have to read the book before I can really fully understand the extent of it's apparent awesomeness.

Mike blogged again. =) Pat on the head for you, brudder. And another one for working on Episode 14. :) These things doth make me of joyful heart. Hehe.

Another box of books came in but the post office is closed till 1:10, so I have to use up half an hour. If only the library computers still had IMing capabilities. . . . /sigh

?Como esta usted? (I need to figure out how to make one of those upside down question marks. . . Also, one of those "o"s in "como" is supposed to have a little ffft thing over it.) Muy bien, gracias. E tu? Regular (said completely different than the English "regular"). Sprechen se Deutch? Wait. . . Tres bien, merci? Oy vey. ;)

I like languages. They're so much fun. =)

Twenty-seven minutes. . . . Hmmmm. . . . I only have two classes on Tuesdays. :) It's nice. I should get a lot of stuff done, but whether or not I will is another matter. Hopefully. I'm really trying to have a good attitude and whatnot. I want to do well and I want to work hard, and I'm so tired already. It's only been a week and two and 1/2 days. . . . No, I have NOT been counting. :P lol

Why is it that the day I want to work out, we already did so it doesn't count for anything? Seriously. I don't think I'm going to be stressing out about good grades this semester. It's kind of nice and yet, kind of not, because when I stress, at least I get everything done that I need to. I'm not worried about school right now. And that's scary because then I'm going to get Cs and hate myself later. . . . Or maybe I'll never care. . . But I want to care. lol

I think I'm bugging Hannah. . . And Steph. It makes me feel bad, because I don't really mean to, and they act like they want to be your friend and get to know you better. Then they do, and I feel like I bother them. . . And I'm usually, generally pretty good about reading things like that. So I think I'm going to try to be less. . . . . I don't know, whatever it is that I'm being when they start to dislike me. lol Less talkative.

There's a girl's soccer game this afternoon. I don't want to go. At all. Hehe. I kinda feel bad for not being there to cheer them on, but at the same time, it's just not fun to watch girls. . . Where's the joy in seeing them run around? I saw that this morning in LF (what I shall now use to refer to Lifetime Fitness). I was one of them too. Let me tell ya, it's not that cool.

I had reading due last night that I didn't get done because I didn't have the book. So I'm excited that some more books came. I'm less excited that I got three wrong on my quiz today (7/10). It was sad. It was because I read the chapter like four days ago though. Next time I'll just read it the night/day before or something.

This post is getting pretty long and I still have fifteen minutes left. I've even done other things. My life is boring when I'm not in class. lol Oh, and just so the world knows, we still haven't had the big, warm pretzels yet. I'm getting a little bit unhappy with the kitchen staff. Bring back the pretzels!!!! ;)

"I have a crush on every boy!"

Please, nobody (meaning Mom and Dad, ;)) freak out. It's just a quote.

On the other hand, guys are cool. They make me happy. lol Sometimes. Less fun times are when they make me sad, but I try not to dwell on that. Hehe. I wish I had good guy friends here at school. It would make life and school and . . . . well, there isn't much beside life and school right now - it would make them more enjoyable. It's crazy how being in a dorm full of girls can suck the life right outta ya.

This year we have dorm societies instead of whatever we had last year (I wasn't involved, so don't ask what it was). We have brother and sister dorms (we did this with the Powderpuff Football) where we kind of cheer for each other and do what we can to help them out. So I'm in Gould and our brother dorm is Spurgeon. Not only does it have a better name than the other dorms, (I mean, come on! "Leland"?? Psh.) but it has what I think are some of the coolest guys. =) So, that's nice. Hopefully there will be a lot of. . . joint efforts between Gould and Spurgeon. /grin

Dr. Morales made Ben do one-handed push-ups in class today. It was funny. And Ben had a lot better attitude than the other guy who had to do them last time. The other guy just had to do regular ones too. lol I think his name is Matt. . . Probably is, because like 50% of guys on campus are named Matt. . . Hah. Anyway.

I need to go make notecards up for my Spanish class and I think I have an assignment for my Fitness class, which I could probably do right now, but I don't particularly feel like it. . . Not having motivation rots.

Spanish! - is a fun class. =)

The rest of my books haven't come. :( Pooh.

Teehee.

Books

Just thought I should post that I have some of my books, all thanks to the Lord. It was really very encouraging because I'd been praying about it a lot and a few of them came Saturday. =D So I thought I should at least put something up about God's goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men. =) (Psalm 107: 8, 15, 21, 31)

Yippee! :)

On a less happy note, Mom didn't email me today. :(
/sniffle
;)

Doesn't feel that late

Maybe it's because the sun is now shining brightly after being hidden by clouds all morning. Or maybe it's because I took a little nap/thing, but it really doesn't feel like it should be 5:30 right now. 3:30 maybe. But not after five. I ought to get ready to go to dinner.

I just found out that some of my books just got shipped today. . . . I need to be reading them already. /sigh Trying not to worry.

I only have six classes this year. I think that's kind of neat.

There's a concert tonight being performed by two Russian pianists. I'm not sure why they're here, but they are and Steph and I are going to take advantage of it.

It's been a lot easier to talk to people this semester. I think I came last year and the first week or two I didn't want to talk to anyone and then I kind of got stuck there. It's been different this year. I think people like me less now. lol Oops? Spanish class is going to be fun.

I need to go to Walmart this weekend to get supplies. Also, a pair of really loose black pants so I can walk around campus after 6pm wearing slacks. But they have to be checkable, thus the "really loose" part. Seriously, they have to be like falling off. . . People need to figure out the different between fitting and being tight. But anyway. I need to get ready. Even though I'm not entirely hungry. Oh well. I have to eat fruit and vegetables. Because I only ate one vegetable for lunch and I didn't have any fruit. . . Shame on me. And I did eat icecream. See, this is what happens when I'm happy. When I'm happy, I eat whatever I want. When I'm more tense/stressed, I eat less and exercise more. So me being happy isn't good for me. lol Oh well. I like being happy.

Rain

One day it's 90. The next day it's in the 50s and raining constantly. I'm definitely in Wisconsin.

I still don't have my books. . . It's bothering me. I'm trying not to worry about it. It isn't very easy not to, though. . .

I'm tired. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's all the rain.

I miss my family. It's weird - every now and then I feel like something is just missing. It happened last semester too, and I couldn't figure out what it was. I figured it out this time. I miss hugs. No one touches here. I think it's bad for you. I mean, it's been proven that babies need to be held and stuff. Why not the rest of us? I need a hug. There's no one here that I want a hug from though. . . Dilemma.

Sat next to this guy in church last night. I know him, sorta. We sat at the same table during lunch one day last semester and - like normal - I mostly just listened, so I learned a few things about him. Anyway. He was really tired last night. He kept nodding off. It was kind of cute, except that it was church. On the other hand, it was the evangelist with practically the same message that he's had since Monday morning. . . . Doesn't excuse it, but it's more understandable. . . Maybe? I don't know. Maybe not. Anyway. The guy reminded me of when Mike was nodding off that one day. Teehee.
/target Mike
/poke
=D

I really want to take a little nap. . . I don't think I'd be able to sleep though. It's weird how lying down and closing my eyes turns my imagination on. Really.

Oh! In my Christian Life class today, Mr. Trainer was awesome. :) I really like him. He totally acted out one of David's mighty men of war in a battle. I mean, play by play of Shammah (I think that was his name. . .) standing in the middle of the field of beans and fighting off the Philistines. It was so funny because it doesn't seem like most teachers in a Christian school would pretend to be lopping people's arms and heads off, or standing there drenched in blood. I like people who are straight forward and bold and matter-of-fact about things. :) They're so much easier to understand, to talk to, and just to like. Quite a few of my teachers are like that this semester. Or so it seems thus far. :) Makes you want to do your best for them. . . People who are just who they are and too bad for you if you don't like it. =)

I need to go read something.

Disclaimer

I did not in any way mean to use the same title as Uncle Matt's blog. His blog reminded me of a song, which I've had in my head now for a while, and that's where the title of my last post came from. It really wasn't intentional. My apologies.

Here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.

So here I am back at school. I think I'm mostly registered. Have to figure out exactly what to do about auditioning for choir. It sounds terrifying. Maybe I'll just be in the one at church and that'll be enough. There's a specific choir for college students, so it'll be the same thing - except on a smaller level and less intense. We'll see what happens.

It's nice to be able to run into people I already know. It's also kind of weird and none of them remember me, which I find rather funny. I like looking at a group of people and naming them in my head. Remembering is fun. =) Also makes it easier to say "hi" when you know their name and they don't know your name. Bwahahaha! It's like I already have an advantage.

I saw Paula when I went to register. I tried to get her attention, but she wasn't looking so I called her. It made her laugh. =)

I bought my Old Testament notes, but I can't find what other books I'll need. I talked to somebody in the bookstore and he was like, "You need these three books for your Biblical Counseling class." Wha-? Three books for one class? Do I really NEED them, or are they just what I'm supposed to have (like if I were rich)? Are there going to be quizzes from these things? Seriously. . . . Three books for one class? I didn't buy them.

I think I'm just going to go to most of my classes the first day, and try to only buy the books that I really, really need. I don't have enough money to buy 18 more books. Well, 15. . . I already have my Hymnplaying book and the OT notes. I hope I won't need a book for Lifetime Fitness. . .

I'm really hungry. . . . And yet, I feel really, really fat. . . . I miss the swimming pool.

Anyway. Certain people need to blog more. . . . And Steph should have been here by now. . . Maybe she's here and I just don't know it. Seems like she would've called me of texted me though. Maybe not. . . I wonder if I need a book for Computer Keyboarding. Maybe Paula has it - I think she took it last semester. I'll have to check. Maybe she has other books too.

I think textbooks are stupid. lol Just to throw that one out there.

Oh, there's this comedian named Brian Reagan who's pretty funny. Steph and I watched him on her computer yesterday. Good times. :)