Late Weekly Update or AAR Baby and Mirror Lake!

So ignoring my "entire" school week, I'm going to focus on Thursday night and on. Thursday night was the night before the Michigan game. Well, OSU must of course have some kind of tradition for pre-grame. Right? Logically, it'd be something to cheer people up and hold a traditional value. No, college football fans, that is beneath us. We take pride in stripping down and facing the frigid air among other things as we show our school's endurance. That's right! The freezing cold jump into a three foot man made pond, also known as Mirror Lake. At first I wasn't going to go, but then one of my suite cluster mates persuaded me to go to hold his towel and such. After relentless persuasion, he finally got me to go. At around eleven o'clock, almost the entire floor left to jump into the lake. Not only did the goosebumps inducing wind greet us, but so did three sets of paramedics and Columbus and campus polices. The routine was pretty normal and repetitious. People take off their shirts and shorts or whatever they were wearing and jump into the water. Then they take it to yell as loudly as possible, perhaps to wake up dead, annoy people or sream in agony as the freezing cold numbs the nerves. After several jumps, the three or four floor mates I was helping out decided that they had had enough and took it upon themselves to run their frozen bodies back to the dorms. That was perfectly fine with me.

So then Friday was pretty fun. In the morning, I had to wake up to turn in my survey class assignment (basically teaches you about how to schedule classes and such). So I get up at 7:30 and get to the room at 8:30. First though, the instructor decided to email the class at 8:22 to tell us that we didn't have to turn the assignment in during class. Would have been nice to have received that email earlier, like before I left to go to class. Anyway, so only about three people showed up to class, which consisted of us turning in our assignments to some random lady who helped our instructor out and then leaving. When I got back to my room, I checked to see if my chem exam grade was up and it was! Woo! I finally did well on something in chemistry, so I rewarded myself with a nap until chem lecture. After lecture and lunch at some place that I forget, I did something. I don't really remember anymore, which is kind of scary. Anyway, fast forward several hours and Blackwood gets here! So we went to an All-American Rejects concert with Shawna, Jamee and some of Shawna's friends. So besides the 2 hour wait in a pretty warm place (I don't really know what it's called) and blasting music that made my left ear deaf almost. The actual concert was so awesome though! It was so much fun, except for the drunk people. The music was awesome and I actually knew several of the songs. So yeah drunk people were annoying. One guy decided that everyone should have a drink and so he sprayed everyone with beer from his bottle while jumping with the crowd. At the beginning some girl threw her bra to the lead singer, Tyson. This brought OSU the fame of being a party school, not that we needed it more than we already are. The band played their new single as the encore. Getting back was kind of exciting. Actually not really. We missed the first shuttle but then caught the second one. It wasn't too cold, but we kept on getting handed beanies and scarves.

Saturday, I spent the morning at the rec center, playing raquetball or riding the bike. I think that I'm getting better at raquetball now. It's so confusing keeping your eyes on the ball sometimes. After the rec center, I hung out with Blackwood, Angela, Brigette and some other people from their suite. After playing Rockband (never again), we went to Target, where I found out that I was really hungry. So we went to Johnny Rocket's, which was in the same area. I ordered a Streamline, which didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. I thought the ones that I make taste better. After dinner, we went back to Angela's dorm to play 90's Trivial Pursuit. I guess I should brush up on my 90's facts. Ah! so many baseball and Playboy questions :S Blackwood and I finally went to sleep at 4 after we managed to talk to Julia and Marie at the same time through different mediums. That was quite special.

Apparently I can't just avoid sleep anymore because after waking Blackwood up at 8:30, playing Halo 3 with him and then dropping him off with his ride, I managed to fall back to sleep again from around 10:15 until 2:30 almost. Wow. What a lazy bum I am :( I should really stop doing that.

Weekly Update or Break Dancing and Drinking

So once again it's a Sunday and time for me to update. No crazy failed COTA adventures this week.

On Monday, my schedule was pretty nice. Since OSU gives Veteran's Day (Tuesday) off, I didn't have lab since the Tuesday sections wouldn't have it. So that meant that my day consisted of a chemistry lecture and an English class. That was pretty awesome. No lab! woo! Not that I don't like lab, just that it makes my day seem to drag on and on. Don't remember what I had for dinner, so probably nothing impressive. Later that night, I watched Chuck, which was awesome.

Tuesday, Veteran's Day, was awesome. I woke up at like 11, ate a little breakfast, and then went back to sleep. Bad. Very bad. Other than that I don't remember doing much. I'm pretty sure I studied for chemistry and biology quizzes. Boo. I missed House that night, gasp! Yes, I know I'm very disappointed in myself.

Well Wednesday this week wasn't quite as relaxing as Monday or Tuesday really. Woke up and went to chemistry lecture, then lab, then English class, so nothing new at all, which is very unfortunate. After dinner, I went and studied some more, what's new?

Thursday was well very long, but mostly lots of fun. Biology lecture was interesting I guess? She started the lecture by telling us to come to class on Tuesday to learn how to pick up people of the other sex. It was a morning waker uper. Went back and ate some breakfast real fast and then went to nap. Volunteering at the hospital was another session of being shuttled around with almost nothing to do. Unfortunately, they didn't have anything for me to do. Biology lab was so different. Firstly, I could hardly understand the TA. She had a really think Chinese accent. I had to listen to carefully. Her quiz was so ahrd too. After the quiz, I was comparing answers with other people, and of course I had to do it correctly and then change it to a wrong answer since I thought that it was wrong. Of course, had to be just my luck. I hate myself. Grr. That question was worth 4 freaking points, too. Lab dissection went pretty well overall. I tried to be really conservatives on the cutting, so the TA had to keep on coming over and helping us. Yeah I did a male fetal pig dissection and the TA was a woman. So many awkward conversations... When she came to help my lab parterner and I the firstt ime, she said, "Wow those are huge!" Referring to parts of the pig. The entire class just froze and turned around. So wkward. Good thing she was just sub TA. I don't know if I could make it through another one of her biology labs like that. After a long and interesting lab, I went to watch Step It Up and Dance. So the main show was the Boogie Bots and Live in Color and then some OSU groups tagged along. The OSU groups were ok. Almost fell asleep during one of them. The tango was eh. The man was so old, but his partner was definitely college age. Hm... what else, Live in Color was pretty bad during their second routine. They were um... yeah, pretty provacative. So anyway Boogie Bots was so awesome! Definitely recorded some parts of their routine. They did this free-style after a quick intermission. It was so awesome. They basically ended the show. It was so awesome. Anyway, yeah. So when I finally got back to my dorm at around 9:30 I missed the Office. I'm pretty sure I'll get over that. (House... maybe not)

So Thursday/Friday, James Bond came out! It was a pretty awesome movie, definitely. Several of my friends and I from the floor and our RA left at like 10:30. Only problem is that we got on at the wrong stop, so we had to go through a loop to the theater stop, which was the last one before the stop that we got on at. Anyway, we finally got our seats at 11, which turned out to be a bad idea, since the theater was so hot and the wait was so long. The buses weren't operating when the movie finished, so we walked back to the dorm. There were definitely about 200 people walking back with us just in our dorm though, which I thought was pretty impressive. The movie was pretty good overall, but I don't think it was as good as the previous one. It was definitely different from the Bond movies that came before it.

Anyway, I'm going to stop for now since I have a midterm to study for and I just wasted all afternoon writing this while watching Pulp Fiction.

Weekly Update 110908 or Trying to understand Public Transportation

So aside from being sad that I couldn't go home the previous weekend, things were relatively ok at the start of the week. Monday was accompanied by usual boredom and normality. Tuesday revealed nothing new as usual. Wednesday during chem lab, however, I managed to return only one positive test out of five (bad). The last test that I conducted, however, was a positive test, which turned around my entire atittude for the lab. English class later, was as usual, pretty boring and plain. After the English class, a roomate and I went to see Pineapple Express. The movie was ok. There were some funny part, but overall the movie was very pointless.
So I acciently woke up late on Thursday morning for Bio lecture. Bad, bad, bad. So I went back to sleep and then woke up at like 11:20. So I got dressed and rushed to volunteering. Volunteering was ok. I made charts for the nurses for the most part. Then after I came back, I had a quick lunch at Mirror Lake Cafe and then went to a FYE series on Undergrad Research. That was ok I guess. Afterwards, nothing really happened. Atleast not anything that I recalled. Hopefully, nothing happened...
Friday was definitely a different night. I definitely went to class today. However, the that's not really all that important :P So that night, we got bored and several of us on the floor decided to go to Easton. It's so awesome there. Probably should have taken a camera, but oh well. Anyway the mall is pretty sweet. It's like Franklin Park and Fallen Timbers added together. We totally went to Apple and Sony story. We were so about to go to the PUma store, too. The movie theater was huge. They had 30 screens there. Anyway, we went and watched Zach and Miri. Yeah... I'll just leave it at that. Overall the "adventure" was pretty wild, lol. With the rain and early darkness, driving was interesting. The navigator was a little unsupportive at times...Anyway, we ended up taking a wrong turn on the way back and stopped at a Waffle House. Whoops :P
Saturday was ok. The regular unproductive Saturday that I always promise to avoid. Though I did get some exercise. So at about 7:30 or so, my suitemates and I went to the RPAC to play raquet ball, but that didn't work out so well. Apparently there was a raquet ball tournament going on so we had to wait until like 10:30 before we could play. So dumb... So anyway, I can say that we played raquetball midnight!
Overall, this was a pretty fun week. Not what I originally had planned for this week to happen in such a way, I must say that this week was quite interesting.

Fall Update

So I haven't updated in a while. Anyway, so much has happened since I last updated at a time I don't remember. So first off, YAY Obama '08 paid off! I'm so happy that he won. I can't wait for the changes that he proposes. I just wish that we had universal education years before. Then I wouldn't have to pay so much for college. I'm still just really happy that Ohio finally voted Democrat for the first time in three elections. Let's see what else? I had my first research interview last week. Hm... still waiting for an announcement. Hopefully, I'll get it. I think it'll be lots of fun and I'll learn a lot for sure. Classes-wise I just took my midterms the last two weeks. I guess I have to study a lot more if I want to do as well as I hope. The couple of quizzes that I had this week didn't seem that bad though, so I think I'm going to have an up swing. That would be nice, definitely.

So lately, I haven't really been sleeping much. I generally average going to bed at 3 in the morning now. I've also extended my normal naps from 20 minutes to 30 minutes now. I did manage to nap for 10 minutes only the last couple of nights during study breaks. Talking about sleep, I think I'm going to try to sleep more during Thanksgiving break. I can't wait. Yay! Six day break from the Tuesday night before until the Sunday whenever I leave for school again. I can't wait to see my friends again. Then as always, Thanksgiving shopping. I wondering what I'm going to buy this year.

Short post I know, but hopefully I'll be able to get into the habit of writing on this every weekend. We'll see how well that goes...