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29 February 2008
♫ ♪ Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland! ♫ ♪
It was absolutely gorgeous earlier this week. These pictures were taken Wednesday.
Then, in the early afternoon, after I had finished up my Honors homework and before Honors class, Megan and I went out for about 20 minutes of impromptu sledding. (The dorm has sleds for communal use, which is awesome.) It was great fun to just enjoy creation for a while, in the middle of a moderately stressful midterms week.
But, anyway. Enjoy the pictures!
Then, in the early afternoon, after I had finished up my Honors homework and before Honors class, Megan and I went out for about 20 minutes of impromptu sledding. (The dorm has sleds for communal use, which is awesome.) It was great fun to just enjoy creation for a while, in the middle of a moderately stressful midterms week.
But, anyway. Enjoy the pictures!
All's well with the world again
'Cause midterms are over and it's spring break!
OK, normally in these situations where I'm behind in posts, I'll try to do them chronologically, but I don't want to do that this time. Mostly because I just don't. Hope you don't get confused!
So my roommate lives in Pittsburgh. Her mom was going to going to pick her up at 3:00 today, but because of the three inches of snow that fell today, poor Sara is stranded at school until tomorrow morning. I feel so bad for her. She's kinda abandonned. (This kind of thing doesn't happen where I come from.) But at least she's got me (small consolation, I know) until 4:00 tomorrow morning.
So, yeah. The roads are kinda slick and sludgy. It honestly reminds me of the consistency of a slurpy. I can't help thinking that if only it were bright blue, I could drink it.
Next post -- pretty photos!!!
God bless,
-Rebekah
OK, normally in these situations where I'm behind in posts, I'll try to do them chronologically, but I don't want to do that this time. Mostly because I just don't. Hope you don't get confused!
So my roommate lives in Pittsburgh. Her mom was going to going to pick her up at 3:00 today, but because of the three inches of snow that fell today, poor Sara is stranded at school until tomorrow morning. I feel so bad for her. She's kinda abandonned. (This kind of thing doesn't happen where I come from.) But at least she's got me (small consolation, I know) until 4:00 tomorrow morning.
So, yeah. The roads are kinda slick and sludgy. It honestly reminds me of the consistency of a slurpy. I can't help thinking that if only it were bright blue, I could drink it.
Next post -- pretty photos!!!
God bless,
-Rebekah
19 February 2008
A C-R-A-Z-Y week!
So I wake up sick on Saturday morning on my aunt's couch in Orange County.
The flu had, as mentioned, been going around from about 2 weeks, but it couldn't have picked a more perfect [read: worse] day to hit me. A constant flow of ibuprofen and cough drops kept me functioning normally throughout the party, but by that night, I was feeling all kinds of crummy (not helped by the fact that my body was operating on EST). The whole flying across the country thing went about as well as could be expected, as I stayed hydrated on ginger ale and one of those huge $3 water bottles they sell at every vendor in the terminal, and got back to the dorm safely.
The illness ran it's course over the next several days, which wouldn't have been a problem, except that this was the one week where everything piled up in every class! Proof that I'm not exaggerating:
Psychology:
Mon - essay thesis due
Wed - first exam
Honors:
Mon - first draft of essay due
regular reading assignment
Wed - inordinately big regular reading assignment
French:
Tue - regular Reader quiz
regular video watching
Thu - second essay due
Spanish:
Tue - first essay due
regular article assignment
exercise handout due
Thu - chapter workbook due (lot's of work!)
oral presentation with PowerPoint
Theology:
Thu - regular reading assignment for weekly quiz
Wow, I really do sound like I'm complaining, but now you've got a little idea of how stressed my week was. And remember, this is all while trying to get enough sleep so that I could feel well enough to actually attend class.
Of course, it all worked out in the end. I got an extension on my Honors paper, there was a snow day on Tuesday, the Spanish workbook pages got pushed back to today, and I was feeling well enough by Wednesday that I could stay up late enough to get my presentation finished. (Which went very well, by the way.)
I'm sorry, I really am being whiny.
Then there was the secretions from my left ear, but the doctor put me on drugs and I should be feeling 100% better very soon. (nurse practitioner's exact promise)
Oh, and I might have a heart murmur! Isn't life wonderful?
I will stop now before this gets any more totally soap opera or I divulge too much of my own medical history.
Bye now,
-Rebekah
The flu had, as mentioned, been going around from about 2 weeks, but it couldn't have picked a more perfect [read: worse] day to hit me. A constant flow of ibuprofen and cough drops kept me functioning normally throughout the party, but by that night, I was feeling all kinds of crummy (not helped by the fact that my body was operating on EST). The whole flying across the country thing went about as well as could be expected, as I stayed hydrated on ginger ale and one of those huge $3 water bottles they sell at every vendor in the terminal, and got back to the dorm safely.
The illness ran it's course over the next several days, which wouldn't have been a problem, except that this was the one week where everything piled up in every class! Proof that I'm not exaggerating:
Psychology:
Mon - essay thesis due
Wed - first exam
Honors:
Mon - first draft of essay due
regular reading assignment
Wed - inordinately big regular reading assignment
French:
Tue - regular Reader quiz
regular video watching
Thu - second essay due
Spanish:
Tue - first essay due
regular article assignment
exercise handout due
Thu - chapter workbook due (lot's of work!)
oral presentation with PowerPoint
Theology:
Thu - regular reading assignment for weekly quiz
Wow, I really do sound like I'm complaining, but now you've got a little idea of how stressed my week was. And remember, this is all while trying to get enough sleep so that I could feel well enough to actually attend class.
Of course, it all worked out in the end. I got an extension on my Honors paper, there was a snow day on Tuesday, the Spanish workbook pages got pushed back to today, and I was feeling well enough by Wednesday that I could stay up late enough to get my presentation finished. (Which went very well, by the way.)
I'm sorry, I really am being whiny.
Then there was the secretions from my left ear, but the doctor put me on drugs and I should be feeling 100% better very soon. (nurse practitioner's exact promise)
Oh, and I might have a heart murmur! Isn't life wonderful?
I will stop now before this gets any more totally soap opera or I divulge too much of my own medical history.
Bye now,
-Rebekah
Imperfect
Don't get me wrong, the people at this university can be some of the nicest people, opening doors and the like. But I can't believe that I could be the only one to notice how a large percentage of the student body is totally oblivious.
This is not just a one time occurrence. It happens all the time. Two people pass each other and start to chat, but they don't pick a direction to walk, or even move out of the flow of traffic, they just stop wherever they happen to be and proceed to ignore everything around them.I've seen them right in the middle of the sidewalk, in the middle of the stairway, by the tray return in the caf and blocking the way where everyone needs to walk, or near the already crowded mailbox area.
We're a friendly people, but I wonder if maybe our friendliness needs to get out of everyone's way.
My name is Rebekah, and I approve this rant.
This is not just a one time occurrence. It happens all the time. Two people pass each other and start to chat, but they don't pick a direction to walk, or even move out of the flow of traffic, they just stop wherever they happen to be and proceed to ignore everything around them.I've seen them right in the middle of the sidewalk, in the middle of the stairway, by the tray return in the caf and blocking the way where everyone needs to walk, or near the already crowded mailbox area.
We're a friendly people, but I wonder if maybe our friendliness needs to get out of everyone's way.
My name is Rebekah, and I approve this rant.
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