Hailed Upon
That was a new feeling in May after weeks of hot temperatures. Those little hailstones hurt when they hit your nose. But it was fun!
We got our chem tests back today. The highest grade was an 88, the lowest was 21, and the average was 71. That scared me right off the bat. Then I got my test back…and I got an 87!!! I don’t know who beat me, but I’m gonna find him and beat him up. I was SOOO excited! That made my day. Now I don’t have to worry so much about the final.
One stats assignment, one non-fiction paper, three finals, and I am done! We are taking down our deck soon…our room is currently in a state of wreck and our couch is out in the hall. Getting into our bathroom is kinda tricky. It’s so exciting! I am gonna miss this room though. It was pretty sweet. But the apartments will be pretty durn cool as well.
Speaking of which, we ARE going to be able to live there (phew). Since we had a freshman (going to be a sophomore) in our foursome, Hayes told us that we wouldn’t make it into the apartments since everything on campus is overrequested and seniors and juniors get priority in the apartments. Thus followed a rigamarole as we proceeded to get rid of one of our roommates and start courting a super senior who will only be here for one more quarter. Well, it finally got worked out. Brandi will be living with CeCe for a quarter until Kim moves out of our apartment, then Brandi is back with us so that CeCe can have the single that she wants. Apparently, living with Ashly this year was enough to traumatize her against roommates for life. It’s all rather ridiculous, I think. But now I officially have a place to live, so I am happy. Later, y’all! (one more class tomorrow and I am done with classes for the quarter!!)
Purrrty-ful
This is a random picture of a lab for ADES. Riveting.
Um, a table of non-data that I don’t know what to do with. So you get to look at it.
LOOK! Our goslings! They are getting SO big now.
Lookee here: my campus is purty in the winter. This is the one piece of art that is worth something on campus…it’s called the “Something” Flame. I like it.
So I found this story on another blog:
3 Engineers and the Stalled Car
Three engineers are riding in a car: an electrical engineer,
a chemical engineer, and a Microsoft engineer. Suddenly
the car stalls and stops by the side of the road. The
three engineers look at each other with bewilderment,
wondering what could be wrong.
The electrical engineer, not knowing much about mechanics,
suggests, “Let’s strip down the electronics of the car
and try to trace where a fault might have occurred.”
The chemical engineer, not knowing much about electronics,
suggests, “May be the fuel has become emulsified and
is causing a blockage somewhere in the system.”
The Microsoft engineer suggests, “Why don’t we close
all the windows, get out, get back in, open the windows
again, and maybe it will work.”
HAHA! But I’ll have you know, this all would have been solved if they had just had a mechanical engineer on board. Hehehe.
Mud Volleyball and A Few Good Men Squared
Rose put on its production of A Few Good Men on Friday. Well, this is the third performance, including last weekend’s performances. I went with Adam, Steve, and Brian. We found Amanda and Chris there and sat with them. It was an entertaining night. The acting wasn’t superb; the main characters did pretty well, but some of the others were monotone and wooden. There were several mistakes, and parts where what the character said didn’t make much sense because I think they skipped chunks of dialogue, but overall it went pretty well. The only part where I started laughing uncontrollably was the suicide scene. Yes, you may think such a scene would be sad…and it was, right up to the part where he put the gun in his mouth and the lights all went dark. I was rigid in my chair, just waiting to be scared silly when the gun went off. Then there was a flash of blue-white light as the guy’s face lit up (Nick Slabaugh played the part, by the way, which made it that much harder to take seriously), then a pause, and then a muted bang followed by a digitized splash of blood that was projected onto a backdrop. I have not seen anything so funny in a LONG time. It took a while for my row to calm ourselves.
So, why does God play with us mere mortals?? Only a week or two ago, it was mid-70′s and sunny outside. But this weekend, it’s rainy and we’re lucky if we hit 50 degrees. So, naturally, it’s the same weekend that we signed up for mud volleyball. At 10 AM. On a rainy Saturday.
MY GOODNESS, that was a cold game. When we lost, we were actually happy. That meant we could go warm up! I was sooo muddy, and it was a lot of fun, despite the frigid cold. We got T-shirts out of the deal, and decided not to stay for the pyramid or belly-flop contest since we had already been outside for 2 hours. The cheeseburgers and cheetos were fabulous, though!
Tonight, we are watching A Few Good Men because the play whetted our appetites. Now we get to see how it is supPOSEd to be. Also, I saw To End All Wars this weekend. GOOD movie.
Lots of homework this weekend, but in two weeks it’s ALL OVER. WAHOO!!!! Lata gatas.
What About Now? How ‘Bout Tonight?
OH MY GOSH I AM ALMOST THERE! Not sure if you all understand how excited I am to be done! Currently, my younger sister is in the same class as me…because my school doesn’t get out until the lil high schoolers do! Yeesh! But not for much longer. Soon enough, my friends, I will be an upperclassman. Woman. Person. 
Tonight, I plan to finish my ADES formal write-up, do some Echem homework, and get started on ADES homework. This week, I have the 2 ADES reports, ADES homework, Echem homework, stats homework, a stats test, and a Non-Fic paper to write. Maybe a chem lab write-up???? Hopefully not. Ugh.
Just so you all know, I have a conflict of interest not next Monday night, but the one after. Yep, they put the 2-hour 24 season finale right smack-dab in the middle of my finals. Priorities…be strong. Nope, I know exactly where I will be from 8-10 (or is it 9-11??) on Monday night. It’s the easy final on Tuesday anyways. So no biggie. Hehe. I’ll have you all know this is completely FOX’s fault.
Later y’all! Gotta buckle down now. Adios.
Grajeeits
NOTE: I only fell down the stairs once this past weekend.
Congrats, Em and Dan! Good job. You two are amazing!
The highlight of the graduation ceremony, besides seeing my family graduate, was the following quote: “UP’ers have feelings too. Except in their fingers and toes.”
My niece and nephew are the coolest h’infants around! SO much fun to play with; try having an eighteen-month-old drink out of a water bottle someday. Hours of fun.
Winding up the sophomore year; after I pass chemistry, all will be well. The rest I am not so worried about. Three weeks and it will all be over, for better or worse. Woot!
Going to hit the ole town today. I am ready to be off campus, so I will utilize the lovely car that I too often take for granted. Wheels are a good thing. Later, y’all.
HIP DEEP, BETSEY, HIP DEEP
ADES test went alright. I was really happy when I turned it in (and am still pretty satisfied) but my bubble was deflated slightly (yes, my bubbles can deflate; I was never very good at analogies) when I realized that for the design-space problem he gave us in the problem statement that a<1…and I solved for a<0.8something. Urrg. Plus the fact that there were supposed to be three lines on the graph and I only had two…something’s not right. Ooooh well.
THE CHEM QUIZ WAS CANCELED!!!! Hallelujah. My life was saved right then and there. Oh, do y’all know anything about silver nitrate?? Well, let me just tell you what our prof told us at the beginning of lab. “It makes a really dark stain and the only thing that gets it off is wear.” Well, that’s something of a paraphrase, but close enough. He was right. And apparently I don’t pour chemicals into test tubes so much as I splash them onto my fingers and up my arms. I look like a leper. Actually, I look more like a little kid given markers for the first time, or that poor individual who’s pen explodes and they don’t notice until it’s too late.
Incidentally, silver nitrate turns your hands a dark gray-blue and your arms a deep brown.
Didn’t get elected for choir. Oh well. I wouldn’t have been able to make it during the fall anyways, most likely. Jess quit vball!! 
I was not happy. We’ll miss her.
Alright, off I go to not even pretend to be productive. Later, y’all. I shall leave you with a 
picture that brought me no end of joy.
Customer Greatly Appreciated It
We had our (first, from what I can recall) Customer Appreciation Dinner at the ARA tonight. All I can say is WOW. Well, I can say more. Or else this would be a very boring and brief blog. Alliteration! Alriiight. There it is again. I just can’t help it.
Ok, so for the dinner, we had…oh man. There was so much. There was ranch-baked parmesan chicken with fresh parmesan to go on top; prime rib; a potato dish of some sort (rrrreally good); veggies; peel and eat shrimp; pierogis; lil sausages; fresh pineapple, grapes, honeydew, etc. with fruit dip; rolls; and a gourmet dessert table that was OUT OF THIS WORLD. They had at least three kinds of cheesecake (I had two of them; one was plain…AMAZING…and one was raspberry crumble or something…good), a ginormous mini-bunt chocolate cake with chocolate glaze (I took that one back to the room for my sick roomie), and lots more.
I STUFFED myself. I had six plates of food by the time I was done. Mmmm. Sadly, the sick roomie promptly upchucked the luscious bunt cake. Can’t say I didn’t think of her, though.
Also at the dinner was a DJ, who played loud but FUN music for us all and we could request what we liked. There were door prizes given away as well. Everyone stayed until the Xbox was given away; then all 300 or so of us left at once. Hehe, Rose nerds. Gotta love ‘em. But they did keep that one for last, so we didn’t just walk out on the poor DJ. Jared, KT’s bf, won a horseshoe set. Woohoo. Hours of fun right there. My RA from last year won a cooler on wheels. Some guy won a pack of Monster energy drinks and someone else won a tub of sunflower seeds. It was a random and fun night. I wish they did it all the time, but then again I guess I don’t cause I would be paying for it. But I do think every dinner should be set to music. Puts everyone in a good mood. Though I must say it was hard to hear. Ya win some, ya lose some.
ADES exam tomorrow and an Echem quiz; after that, I might be able to breathe again. We had our last spring vball season practice today as well, so tomorrow we will have a pizza party in the SRC. I have choir elections as well (apparently I was nominated for SECRETARY, not treasurer…just as well, since I don’t think we really have money to spend and I wouldn’t know how to take care of it if we did), so I will skedaddle from the par-tay a little early to see if I am elected. And to vote, of course.
I need to do some last-minute studying and try to decide if I should skip stats tomorrow so I can study for my quiz in between ADES and Echem. Hmm. We’ll see. Later, y’all.
Caution
CS professors on the loose! I was run over by a CS prof today. I decided to cut through CS territory in order to get back to work after meeting with my ADES professor. Number one mistake. Number two came when I assumed that I could turn corners willy-nilly with no thought to my own safety. Apparently, those astute Computer Science educators walk at the posted 45 mph with heads pivoted a full ninety degrees in the opposite direction then they are headed. It’s an aerodynamic thing, I think. Anyways, I could only got out a noise of some sort (probably equivalent to the ululating cry I gave when riding one fateful day with Mrs. Christman) before he plowed into me. I managed to spin enough to the side to just get a shoulder and one foot trampled, but I believe I bounced off the wall behind me. He said something, laughed, apologized, and announced to the classroom we had collided in front of that he had just run over someone. Blush.
Funny times.
Had my Humanities and Social Sciences Student Advisory Board meeting today; it overlapped with choir nominations, so I missed that, but I was nominated for treasurer, YAY! Voting is on Thursday, which I also can’t make because of volleyball. Hmm. My track record is not so good for this position so far. But we’ll see how it works out.
Got to study for a huge ADES test, take said ADES test, do chem homework, rewrite a formal report for ADES, write another formal report for ADES, do stats homework, take a stats quiz, read for Non-Fiction, and research for the AIAA project before Friday. Summer! I PINE for you!
Drama and a Turtle!
Lost a suitemate today. There was quite the blow-up and apparently no one can handle toughing it for four more weeks, so we helped move one of our suitemates up to her new room on the second floor. There has been drama for quite a while over this, but it finally cam to a head this week. It’s really retarded actually and I am frustrated with the inability of some to get along with people. But that’s cool.
On a lighter note…we have a red turtle living in the small pond at Rose! He’s completely scarlet on his back and he has little red markings on his head and little legs. SO cute! I’ve never seen such a pretty turtle before. We also have a gigantic one in the bigger pond that scares me a bit since I’ve jumped in several times with KT before and aagh it could have bitten my toe off! Yargh.
Going to see The Sentinel soon; not with all 3 roomies as was the plan before. Sigh. Oh well, I’ll figure it out later. And this summer…PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II!!!! I hope you are all practicing your “gaarrs” and washing your bandanas, cause there’s no way I’m missing it and YOU’RE COMING WITH ME!!! So get used to it.
Sumuppance
Part I
Holy package! A huge box of randomness arrived from the Weideman’s here at Rose…WOW! It was full of great stuff; I am amazed by their generosity. Thanks Weideman’s!!!
Part II
Attack of the Goose
Rose has been plagued by an egg-guarding, ginormous bird that camps out on the sidewalk and…best part of all…attacks unsuspecting Rose nerds on their way to class. Ah, but this bird is not picky in who he chooses to hiss and charge at; no, even the innocent campus tours find theselves dodging his snapping bill. He’s taken to leaping on students’ backs and going for the neck. Makes great dinner entertainment when you sit by the window in the ARA, though. hehe
Part III
Vball Scrimmage and a Concert
We played DePauw on Sunday – 5 games and we won 2. Yay! Also, on Saturday the Rose Chorus was the final act in the 2-and-a-half-hour production of Engineers in Concert. Wow, some of those acts were amazing!! Haha, I think my favorite was the 4-person band made up of professors and their wives; the “drummer” played his synthesized instrument on a keyboard; oh man, he was groovin’, tapping with both index fingers on a maximum of four or five different notes. Yeah…that’s how we get down!
check out these gorgeous altos!! owow!!
(from left: Susannah Yoder, Brittany McGowan, Sami Dick, Charli Dvoracek, Erin Rumley)
Part IV
Congrats to Jaymi! Welcome back, darlin’ Jori!! Betsey makes me laugh. Congrats to Matt! And…I officially want school to be OVER. Four more weeks…and finals…and I am done! See you all later.
Rose Undergraduate Women
There we all are (well, almost. my roomie wasn’t there, among a few others). This is the 10th year that women have been allowed at Rose. You may have trouble finding me…I’m exactly in the middle, the second row from the front. Look for the glow of pasty white skin. Yeah, that one’s me.
Yay, Rose girls!!
Beautiful Spring Break ’06
Well, folks, I had a pretty much amazing break.
It all started with a weekend trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto in Canada. Betsey and I went up alone…we camped on Friday night at Niagara and stayed in a hostel Saturday night in Toronto, then headed home by way of Lansing on Sunday. If you would like more details as to that trip, just talk to me; a lot happened, including a COLD/bathroomless night, a man in a kilt, an outdoor concert, and a ride up the tallest building in the world. There were interesting people too; it was just a blast!
In Lansing, we discovered that Emily was engaged…YAY!! We are very excited about wedding plans. Congrats to Em and Dan!
We got back to Grace Sunday night and I went to a class with Betsey on Monday and got some of our pictures developed. Then I headed home…aahh, my beautiful big bed!! I love queen sized beds; even the extended twins at Rose don’t do the trick in comparison to my lovely bed at the NWI domicile.
The week at home was so relaxing and enjoyable. I read a book (“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen – and Mr. Bennet is my official favorite character) and watched Season 2 of 24 and rode bikes with Zach to the library twice and generally made an indolent bum of myself. I got to see the newly engaged couple on the weekend as they came down to look for wedding locations.
Then, on Saturday, my wonderful sister took me with her to Chicago to see Wicked. WOW!!! That was an experience beyond what I was expecting. I love live performances, but I had never seen a musical; this was a great way to break the ice! The Hills are my heroes. We also spent some time in Chicago with about eleven of Betsey’s Grace friends…I am so glad they let a complete stranger like me hang out with them!
That night, we were all extremely tired but decided to head out to DC’s for some line dancing on Saturday night anyways. It is such a blast every time we go there! I always see people I know; this time it was Dana Cornelius and Josh D’Azzena and Ashley Barajas. And the dancing was aMAZing!! The burgers were not as good this time, but that’s ok. I still had a blast!
Then I headed back to Rose today (
Sunday). I think break just makes me want summer more. Oh, and here is a picture of me and my gorgeous mother!
See you all later! Have a great day.
"Goin’ To the Chapel…"
CONGRATULATIONS to my dearest older sister and her brand-new fiance!! That’s right, Emily and Dan finally decided to tie the knot! I am SO excited! Planning a wedding is going to be a blast! Dresses and invitations and the ceremony and the flowers and all the wonderful, hair-pulling franticness that is a wedding…it’s gonna be great!
The date is not entirely decided yet, but as soon as Em can find out when the location is available, the date will be finalized. It’s going to be soon though, probably about 5 months. That’s the way to do it; a long dating/getting-to-know-each-other period and a SHORT engagement.
So, congrats to Emily! YAY!
T-Minus 6 hours (and 18 minutes) and counting…
Road trip:
-Grace to get Betsey
-Niagara campground or bust!
-Niagara Falls
-Toronto
-hostel
-Toronto
-Lansing with Emily!!
-Grace to crash
-a day with Buzz
-home
SOOOOOOO FUN! I’ll catch all y’all in the NW of IN lata!! I’ll be there for positive on Tuesday. Augh. This is gonna be GREAT!! Smiles all around.
Nephew!!
Here is a beautiful boy! That is the happy parents you see in the picture.
Caleb Aaron being held by his aunt, Melissa, who also happens to be pregnant again! We like our kids.
Another picture of the brand new baby (Aunts Melissa and Alonna are both in this one).
Lookee! It’s me doing my dangdest to nurture that motherly instinct. It’s pretty easy when all our babies are so durn cute. I didn’t even drop him once!
Couldn’t resist putting up a picture of the new big sister! Soooo adorable…Grace is sixteen months old now! Where did that blond hair come from?
Well there’s more but I think Blogger will start yelling if I try to add more pictures. Plus, those of you with dial-up will be 85 before you see these few anyways. Later, folks!
And Then There Were Eleven
WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, CALEB AARON RUMLEY!!!!
Our April Fool’s baby was born at some obscenely early hour (5 or 6 or 7, something unearthly like that) on April 1st, 2006!! He is 21 1/2 inches long and weighs a robust 9 lbs, 13 oz. That’s right, that’s how we grow ‘em in the Rumley family.
He may have been a tad overdone (that’s what happens when you’re in the oven 9 days longer than expected), because his skin is very dry, but otherwise he seems to be as healthy as can be. On par with my previous experiences with the younger generation, he puked while in my arms; ah, yes, children feel a natural connection with me. It’s got to be a sixth sense.
I proceeded to panic and hand the baby off to his parents. But he is an adorable kid! A kid after my own heart…when they were drawing blood from his feet, he didn’t even wake up. In fact, he hadn’t been awake since soon after the delivery. That’s my nephew. I think Lacey said she hadn’t even seen his eyes yet. Well, all the way open anywho. He makes these little noises in his sleep though…kinda whines I guess, but it’s super cute. And he does something funky with his lower lip and chin.
Pictures to come as soon as I get them off of my roomie’s camera!!
well i had nothing else to do in stats class
Betsey wins. She got me to take the quiz.
The Five Love Languages
My primary love language is probably
Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being
Quality Time.
Complete set of results
| Physical Touch: | 10 | |
| Quality Time: | 9 | |
| Receiving Gifts: | 6 | |
| Words of Affirmation: | 3 | |
| Acts of Service: | 2 |
I think physical touch and quality time kinda go hand-in-hand, no pun intended. *wink*
shazzam
Rocked that one. Yay! ADES isn’t going to make a casualty out of me.
I’m not certain it’s necessary to use proper capitalization and punctuation when writing in fragments.
Toronto in one week and one day. Woot!
Don’t you wish sometimes that you would be all grown up and have it over and done with? I learn new things that God is trying to drill into my head every day, and yet it seems like I don’t make much progress. It’s kinda like treading water. I can just keep myself afloat but I’m not going anywhere fast. Aarg!
It’s a good thing, though. I really am learning something useful that will help me be able to serve the Lord better someday. I really am. That’s what I have to keep telling myself when I feel like I am right back where I started from.
I am kinda busy recently. With volleyball starting up (a lot more than I was expecting for a spring season) and choir and the AIAA project and all of my classes and spring break coming up that I am planning for, things are rather crazy. I like to be busy (I mean, who wants to be bored??), but I have to make sure I am not stressing all the time. Seriously, I am such a worry wort, and it doesn’t make life fun.
I have been discussing a lot in Non-Fiction, and it is hard. Hard to portray my faith correctly without sounding like a right-wing radical…hard to articulate my beliefs without bringing the Bible, God, or Jesus into it…hard to be the only one defending my position! That is a new one for me. But there ARE other people of faith in the class, I have discovered that. I think I am just still too conservative in my views for them. It’s also hard when I’m not sure about something, and that is the point they want to attack. I don’t even know myself yet! I feel so inadequate in a religious debate. I don’t feel like I know nearly enough!
Well, I need to do some homework. Bed by midnight! (rain or shine 
Rose
I’m back after a great weekend at home. I decided that I get a lot more work done at home then I do at college for SURE. Sheesh, I was so productive that I got everything done on Saturday and had the rest of the weekend to enjoy!
Speaking of enjoying….I got to celebrate Jaymi’s 20th birthday with her!! It was a lot of fun and I ate an obscene amount of food. Mmm. We went out to eat at Olive Garden (which also provided my Sunday night meal…yay for leftovers!) and then went back to Jaymi’s house for cake and ice cream. I saw Jenni(y?)’s baby too! Wow, we don’t grow ‘em that small in the Rumley family. She was sooo tiny! Very cute.
The one disappontment of the weekend was that my baby was not born. Sad. That means I probably won’t see him or her until spring break.
SPEAKING OF WHICH…Betsey and I are making plans for heading up to Toronto and Niagara Falls the weekend of April 7th, 8th, and 9th. That is the beginning of my spring break, and we will be camping, seeing the Falls, the CN Tower, shopping, and heading back to Lansing on Sunday to spend a few hours with my other amazing sister, Emily. Yeah, we are awesome!!
Well I gotta run, but I will update more later.
The Greatest Roommate in the World!
That’s mine! KT is the best! I received the best compliment I have ever gotten tonight; I’m telling you, God works in the times when you least expect it and certainly least deserve it! So stay strong, whatever you are going through, because you may be touching a life when you feel the least worthy.
KT and I decided to take a few hours off; we went and saw V for Vendetta together. WOW! I would HIGHLY recommend this movie to y’all. Lots of noise, definitely a pyro-paradise, gore, love, angst, a great musical score…overall, it was lovely. There’s also a revolting scene, but I won’t tell you what it is. Let’s just say I was NOT expecting it and it will not be what you expected either, probably. But you should still see it, regardless. GREAT film.
Meanwhile, me and my roomie dusted off a giant tub of popcorn and a box of raisinets and two huge cups of pop. It was good at the time…but we will be working it off tomorrow! We might have our first vball practice of the year then, but no matter what, KT and I will be doing our vball workout, so we’ll sweat away those calories. Anyways, I have a stats test tomorrow and I still need to finish the homework. So I will leave now to get all that done. Peace out!