I Won a Raffle, I Won a Raffle!
I never win these things! Yay! It was an LC raffle…honestly I don’t even remember putting my name in the pot, but hey, I won something! I am going to go claim my prize…I’m on pins and needles! What did I win?
Then I shall:
1) pack the van with dirty laundry that is about sky-high right now
2) pack my study essentials…yikes, finals are closing in on me!
3) get the show on the road!!
Going Home!!!
In…3 and a half hours!
One more class for the quarter. Crazy! I am almost done.
Yaaaay!
Happy birthday, Grace!
I Got It Right, I Got It Right, I Got It Right Hey Hey Hey Hey!
Just a lil announcement…I GOT A CON APPS PROBLEM RIGHT…IN CLASS!!!! Usually when he passes out those example problems, I kinda stare blankly at the paper and hope the numbers will magically appear, but not today, folks!! He asked who had calculated a numerical result and I offered my answer (I actually GOT one) and it was RIGHT!!!
Ok, I’m excited. Gonna work on some more fun con apps problems before Esys and DE reviews tonight. Bye all!
Great Green Gobs of Greasy-Grimy Gopher Guts…Mutilated Monkey Meat…Little Birdies’ Dirty Feet…Great Green Gobs of Greasy-Grimy Gopher Guts, and
I forgot my spoon!!!! The title wouldn’t let me finish the song. Apparently it can only be so long.
Lord, give me the will to work until I can’t go on any longer…then lend me your strength so I can continue past the breaking point.
These few days are going to be jam-packed with studying. In fact, I should be studying right now. But my little head can only take so much; hence the prayer. Two review sessions tonight (DE and Esys), which will be all the non-con-apps studying I will be doing before the con apps final, I believe. Then I will write a paper for Lit of War in between spurts of con-apps.
I am going home tomorrow! I will be back Sunday morning, but Friday night and all day Saturday are going to be WONDERFUL; I will see tons of family and get to celebrate my niece’s first birthday. She is such a cutie! I can’t wait to see how much she has grown and how much she has learned.
Alright, I have time to fit in 20 minutes of con apps before class, so I am going to go be productive. See you fine folks ohsosoon!!
Good Tidings We Bring
Love Christmas songs.
Keep up the studying suggestions, by the way. Anything at all would help me out a great deal.
So…story time. We had a recruit down at Rose for volleyball and Jess and I entertained her last night. Jess passed out Capri Sun’s to us and we sat and talked while we drank them. Jess kept insisting her’s tasted funny; she has them all the time, and she said her’s was weird…but Brittany’s and mine tasted fine and we finished ours really fast, so we told Jess she was crazy.
She let hers sit their forever, and finally I told her to let me try it. Ok, folks, I could get like two drops out of it. That’s it. I sucked at it as hard as I could, and I couldn’t get it to some out. Jess said to blow in it and I tried, but that didn’t even work. So Jess took it back (it hadn’t done this for her) and pulled the straw out and started screaming.
Brittany and I hadn’t seen anything, but Jess was hysterical, saying there was something in there and asking if we had seen it. She kept saying, “I told you it tasted funny!” We took it to the sink and cut it open. Jess couldn’t look, she said she was going to be sick, so I poured it out in the sink.
Yup, it was nasty. It turned my stomach. Brittany thought it was gum, but she wasn’t poking at it like I was. I swear it looked like a bug larva, still wrapped up in it’s little skin thing. Uughh!! It also could have been a type of mold, but I really don’t think it was. We were grossed out by that for sure. Yuck!! And I was trying so hard to suck it up through that little straw…imagine if I had succeeded!
On a happier note, tonight Jess and I went to my literature of war film festival (4 obscure war movies showing at the same time). We chose Battleground, an old black and white film about World War II; and we watched it with a WWII veteran!! It was so cool! Not only was it a good movie, but we got to hear first-hand experiences from the old man throughout the movie. I would recommend watching that movie if you get the chance. It was very well done and was also hilarious at the same time that it was poignant and sad.
I have a meeting with my con apps professor and a lab tomorrow, as well as lots of homework, LC work, and a con apps review session. So I’m out.
Sigh.
If only your friends could see this “famous person” failing con apps. Stupid class.
I have to do super good on the final in that class. Have to. Or I won’t pass. So I’m aiming for a 100. That way…ya know, “aim small, miss small” and all that jazz. I potentially have to get an 80 in order to pass the class…and so far I’ve not been able to reach that score on any of my other tests. Whoopee.
But failing is not an option. So. I will pass. No matter what.
I am trying to think of a way to best utilize the 3 hours of driving I will be doing this Friday and again on Saturday or Sunday. You see, that is a lot of hours in which to study con apps. I wonder if there is a way to record something onto a CD or tape and play it for those hours. Get it ingrained in my head.
I think working through problems by hand is probably a bad idea on the road. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. That’s a waste of a good 6 hours of study time!!
To-Do List
- winter IM captain’s meeting at 8 pm
- con apps homework from 9-?
- maybe some DE from ?-?
- bed by 12
- tomorrow, classes and work from 8 am-12:40 pm
- lunch from 12:40-1
- getting packed and taking stuff down to the SRC from 1-2:30
- LEAVE FOR TENNESSEE at 2:30!!!!
Wahoo! The final weekend of the season…I am relieved right now; maybe later I will be sad. I know I will miss it in a week or two, but I welcome the break for now.
Hope everyone is having a splendid day!
Tennessee
We’ll be bus’ing it down to Tennessee on Thursday for the final tournament of the season; the cross-divisional. As I have said before, I will not be coming back without a win. I mean it. No wins, no Erin.
And the world rejoiced…”yaaaaay”. Haha, good movie.
My KT is sick. 
She is getting better slowly, but she has a cough that isn’t going away very fast.
Think I am going shopping today…at Kroger’s and Kmart, but shopping nonetheless. 
I love Wednesdays. i get to be a little lazy. But I gotta get ahead in con apps cuz we’re leaving early this week. So I’ll sign off. (going home in a week and a half…and then in another week!!)
It’s the Big One….
Yup, third and final con apps test tomorrow. Until the final, that is. Yikes. This is the big one, folks. I gotsta do good on this. So I shall be studying my lil hind end off tonight. Gaah.
On a brighter note, Lit of War is going to see Jarhead sometime…in theaters! Free! I love that class. Soooo much. We are working on “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel” now. Wow, what a piece of work. It is a play with Pavlo as the main character. He is absolutely crazy, I tell you. It is a hilarious play…I laughed out loud several times while reading it. But it also has lots of profanity, so the reading out loud in class gets kind of interesting sometimes. The drill sergeant is probably the funniest character, although Kress is right up there. Anyways, if you want an interesting read, and a unique one, that would be one. The play itself I am sure is brilliant, but I am not sure I want to see some of the scenes acted out.
This week includes the con apps test, a captain’s meeting for IM bball, and a tournament this weekend for which we have to leave at 2:30 on Thursday. That means zero classes for me on Friday…which could be a good or bad thing. BAD because I will be missing TWO con apps classes again (it starts at 2:30, so I will miss it Thursday and Friday); yet good because YAY I don’t have to worry about class. Just gotta get my work done ahead of time.
Alrighty, time to finish the ole Esys homework and study like crazy for con apps.
In Ohio
Back on Saturday night (laaaate).
Here’s the ole update.
I raked leaves today! It was awesome to be out in the fall weather and OFF campus! It was a SWE thing (Society of Women Engineers), and I am technically not in SWE, but they needed more girls to work it and, hey, I have the qualifications, so I offered. Jess and Katie Wolber and I all went…it was long but fun! We might be going back for finals week. We earned money for SWE, and maybe I’ll figure out how to join SWE so that I can see how they spend said money.
We had another 6 AM practice today. Poopy farts. I hate morning practices! It went alright, I guess, but I forgot to put in my contacts and had to play in glasses. It’s not easy to kill a ball when you’re doing your full approach and your vision is shaking as your glasses bounce up and down. Haha. The joys of near-sightedness.
I might get my Esys exam back tomorrow! Yay, because I think I did really well.
I sat down and did some homework today (gasp) and got one of the con apps problems done ALL BY MYSELF. Round of applause. Now I only have three more to do. Due Friday. Along with my Lit of War paper.
We have a tourney this weekend and next weekend, so I will miss the performance of the play Jerikar is in (sad!!). I really like live theater, and it is fun to see people I know in it as well. Darn it, I’ll miss all of the stinkin’ performances!
Final review week, there is a war film festival that Jess and I will be going to, hosted by Dr. Williams, a super cool professor o’ mine. It will be loads of fun and I am excited about it!
Oh, shocker, I actually did DE homework today! I am so on top of things today.
Ate a bar of chocolate by myself today. It was huge and creamy and so worth it. Oh man.
My roomie was sick today I had to go out and buy her some stomach stuff. Hope she feels better soon. Plus I REALLY don’t want to be sick. Pleeeease!!! Alrighty, I am going to bed so I can get up early and be productive cuz I need to be.
It’s All About Me
Well if you didn’t want to hear about me, why did you come to my blog?????
Go here to see the star of the show!
Surprise!!
Guess who came down to see me today?? GR folks! Dan and Emily drove down to the Rumley house last night and then finished the drive to Depauw this morning to see one of my games! And we won! Just for them…
I was soooo excited and happy to see them there. They got to see me play lots and get some kills; not quite like the game Jaymi had to sit through…did you know Jaymi came to see me on Thursday? So Dan and Emily left after the first game…good thing too, cuz we lost soundly in that one.
So Jaymi and I had a GREAT time here Thursday night through Friday night. It was great to catch up on things with her and talk for hours and play pool…heh heh, or at least give it our best effort. It was like PCS all over again, since we managed to drag Kyle into our activities as well. Do your homework, kid!
I am not the night owl I was in high school and freshman year, lemme tell you. I go to bed by midnight almost every night if I can (I get up early, dang it). So Thursday night (up till 2) about killed me, haha! Someday I will get to sleep in…
See y’all later!
Lab Practical
- 10% of my grade
- one and a half hours long
- performed alone with no aid from ANYone
- I GOT A 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yaaaaaaayyyy! Now on to con apps. Gotta bring that grade up too.
Bunyons
“Buns and onions, it’s kind of appetizing if you don’t think too hard.” – Sookie
Hahahaha, gotta love Sookie. There were lots of outrageous lines in last night’s episode.
And who knew you spelled it “Sookie”??? I always thought it was Sukie or something like that. Whoops.
I’m Sorry I Can’t Be Perfect
"Well you need a blue sky holidayThe point is they laugh at what you say..." "You had a bad dayYou're taking one downYou sing a sad song just to turn it aroundYou say you don't knowYou tell me don't lieYou work at a smile and you go for a rideYou had a bad dayThe camera don't lieYou're coming back down and you really don't mindYou had a bad day..." "Sometimes the system goes on the blinkAnd the whole thing turns out wrong..." "So where is the passion when you need it the mostOh you and IYou kick up the leaves and the magic is lost..." Pieces of "Had a Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. Gaah! Where's that good day when I need it? Too many bad ones in a row. Lots of work tonight. If you see the other half of my heart walking around out there, could you send him my way?
Guess Who Had a 6 AM Practice Today?
That’s right. Me. Wish I could say otherwise. Wooey, that one was early. And it went till 7:30 and I have an 8 o’clock class. I was flying to get showered in time. I even drove the van to the SRC so I could get back more quickly. I had KT drop me off and take the van back to its parking spot. I felt like a schoolkid being dropped off at the elementary wing in the minivan…except that I’ve never had that experience before, hehe. I don’t think. Well, not in high school or elementary that is. Perhaps in K4. Whatever.
So I have lots on my plate. In 7 minutes, I have to leave to get in to the Esys lab room to practice for my lab practical tomorrow. That is where each lab partner goes in by him/herself and does an abbreviated lab alone to see if he/she knows what he/she is doing. So let’s hope I know what I’m doing…yikes!
I am now a part of the HSS Student Advisory Board. We have 3 meetings during the year to discuss changes or improvements in the humanities at Rose; I was apparently highly recommended by Dr. Williams, which is cool since I think she is amazing! She is my Lit of War prof this quarter, and I am hoping to get her for Tech Comm my junior year.
Tonight after the lab preparations, I will get dinner and then go shopping in the C-Store. Junk food time! I shopped in the bookstore earlier today and decided I really want to splurge in some stuff, but I kinda am not sure about the resources to do so. I would love to do all of my Christmas shopping there, but hahaha, would all of my family really want everything with a big Rose-Hulman stamped on it?? Plus it’s super-duper expensive. Ok, off to lab practical practice it up! Ooo, say that eight hundred times fast!
Adios!
The End of Fall Break
That’s so sad. I had a great break! And now it’s all over…
I got to go home for about a day and some odd hours! Woohoo! I saw the fam, even Buzz and Emily. We celebrated Hyo-Sun’s birthday on Thursday (and I got lots of home cookin’ in me – grin). I went out with Jaymi and Kyle for a while that night as well…haha, guys, it was a blast as always! We really know how to party. Kmart SO wasn’t ready for us!
On Friday, surprise surprise, Emily and I were recruited to play in an alumni/faculty soccer game against the PCS varsity team. We ended up tying it 1-1; but the faculty side should have creamed the varsity team. We were so much better!
Then I drove back to Rose on Friday night and the next morning (bright and early) left for Kentucky with my teammates. Yeah, folks, I was up at six a.m. That’s ridiculous. But we had a lovely breakfast at Denny’s, so that kinda sorta made up for it.
We proceeded to lose every game that weekend. Aaaarrrghhh! But luckily, that is not all that I will remember from the weekend. I personally set a career high and led the team in kills in our first match (10 kills); then I played the best games of my career for the rest of the weekend. We just never have all of our guns firing at once. It’s like only one of us can have a good game at a time. Grrrrr!
We have tomorrow off, and I will be doing lots of homework then, but the break will be glorious. I might find out about my con apps test tomorrow! *cross fingers*
Alrighty, I’m off to bed (yeah, at 8:30) so I can get up SUPER early tomorrow – 5ish if I’m motivated – and get some DE done. Adios, all!
Second Interview Over!
Fall break is tomorrow! Weesa goin’ hooooome!
Yeah, so Larry Lynch, the guy who interviewed me, kept saying how well the first interview went with Patterson and how well I was answering questions….so keep you fingers crossed! Maybe I’ll have a job this summer in good ole Peoria!
Alrighty, take care everybody!
One Interview Down…
One to go! Phone interview #1 done and over forEVER!!!!
I think I did well, besides some super cheesy comments that I knew I would somehow say – dang phones – so all in all, WOOHOO!!! I find out in a month (and after tomorrow’s interview) what they decided.
Time to take a con apps test. Booooo! I’m nervous but still on an adrenaline high from the interview, so bring it con apps! Yeah, just so you know, a phone interview is the most natural knock-out high you can get. Woo, I’m still spinning! And shaking. Aaahh, need to go burn off some energy! Guess that’s what the test is for….
Talk to you fine folks later!
New Personal Record!
I got my highest single match kill record against Rhodes…7 kills! I’m working my way up there…next goal: double digits.
Haha, in high school, that would have been nothing. But I’m excited about it now…against those big, bad blockers! And those durn liberos! Yay!
So I am procrastinating AGAIN…gotta go study con apps. I have a test tomorrow. And a phone interview – gulp – on Wednesday. And another interview some other time that I do not know of yet. Oh boy. I get the shakes just thinking about it.
Alright, I’m off. I’ll go study now. Sigh.
We’re going to Milwaukee On the Train!!
Texas, that is. By airplane, that is. The Boys Next Door is a grrrreat movie!!
So I have to turn in my transcript to Cat and set up my phone interview for Wednesday of next week. After that is a follow-up interview if they liked me the first time. Not a phone interview. And I want a summer internship, not a spring or fall one, so I am competing against a lot of people. I am excited and nervous and overwhelmed because I have too much to do tomorrow!
I should go pack and finish laundry. I got my paper written for tomorrow and the con apps homework for Friday done. Now I just have to get the con apps and Esys homework due Monday done…and study for the con apps test on Tuesday. This weekend should be tons of fun! As long as I don’t slack off and end up doing a buttload of homework all at once cuz I didn’t get it done before.
Take care, everybody! Next time I post, I will have been to Texas and back! And to the Riverwalk, hopefully. Peace out!