Random stuff that happens.

It's the second week of school, and things are starting to get on a roll. It seems like every night, a new commitment starts, which means I'll have to work extra hard to stay on the ball. I'm really excited about everything I'm going to be involved in this semster though.

I finally got my graduation paperwork signed and turned in. My French advisor is still sorting through my Parisien transcripts. With any luck, though, it will work out, and I'll have enough credits for that major.

My Latin American Lit professor is from Madrid, which makes me happy, and I enjoy the challenge of his accent, but the reading for homework is really challenging. Maybe it will get easier as we move out of the conquista and into the modern era.

I need to take my last 30 credits in Steubenville, which means that after my major requirements, my last core class, a thesis and a seminar, I only had one credit left to take. So after I didn't make the University Chorale, I've signed up for Introduction to sign language. Missed the first week, and it's only one hour per week, so we've only learned a little about the history of the deaf community and the alphabet. It should be interesting though.

I'm going to try the nursing home ministry I was involved with two years ago.

Im going to apply for the Mexico mission trip over spring break.

And I'm so excited about Household this semester!

Alright, that's it for now. God bless you guys.

-Rebekah

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time.

One of these supposedly relates the experiences of one Veet Voojagig, a quiet young student at the University of Maximegalon, who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception, and then, after a night of drinking Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beeblebrox, became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the biros he'd bought over the past few years.

There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centres of biro loss throughout the galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory which quite caught the public imagination at the time. Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to biro life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended biros would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely biroid lifestyle, responding to highly biro-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the biro equivalent of the good life.

And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was taken away, locked up, wrote a book, and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make a fool of themselves in public.

When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for this planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

There did, however, remain the question of both the mysterious 60,000 Altairan dollars paid yearly into his Brantisvogan bank account, and of course Zaphod Beeblebrox's highly profitable second-hand biro business.

-Douglas Adams

Sorry, it's just that I seem to be having a remarkable amount of difficulty keeping a normal-coloured pen  about when I need one. Thought I'd share a peek into my resulting mental process.

-Rebekah

Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to school we go...

It's the third day of class.
I've been back on campus five days.
It seems like so much more than that.

In a way, it's like I never left. Franciscan feels like home, I'm picking up old friendships where they left off. Then there are ways in which it's radically different. I'm a senior this year, which means I'm taking mostly major classes, I'm doing a "seminar" with my French advisor as a graduation requirement, which is basically a lot of research over the semester. I'm going to be incredibly busy this year, but I think I feel ready.

Anyway, the title for this post is the way we all seriously look like ant trails as we scurry along various sidewalks to and from class, Mass, the caf, the dorms...

God bless everyone's semesters. They're going to be great. And keep in touch.

I've got a mailbox! ... and a cell phone!

I finally got a mailbox assigned. It turns out, all you have to do is call, and they'll give you one before the semester starts. So...

My mailing address as of August 23 will be

Rebekah Schloeder

1235 University Blvd. #1109

Steubenville, OH 43952

EDIT: I also finally got a cell phone. The number is 858-208-6148.

EDIT EDIT: Room number is 740-283-4142

Write! or Call! or Skype!

A clean room, and other news

Yeah, so I taped myself cleaning my room for motivation. Please feel free to not enjoy the video if you don't want to.

Last night all the girls got together for an end-of-the-summer Pride and Prejudice

and pizza party. It was really great to hang out with everyone again before we all go off to various colleges for the semester.

Before that, Bridget, Emily, and I went to the beach and went boogie boarding. One last time before we leave San Diego...

Emily left this morning for her student life orientation at Fulerton, and we'll be going up to help her move into the dorm tomorrow. I can't believe she's going to college, but it doesn't really feel real either 'cause I'll see her tomorrow and again before I leave for Steubenville.

I go back to school on August 22 at night and land in Pittsburgh the next morning. I really can't wait to see all my friends again!

I've been thinking about starting to video blog every so often... stay tuned.