The Last Growl February 24, 2008

I was never one for sports in high school. Recently I have discovered the joys of men’s basketball. Last night was “The Last Growl.”   Men’s basketball played University of New Hampshire in the lasat home game of the season. It was so intense. Neither team was up by more than 10 points at any time. New Hampshire is really good at 3 pointers. I swear the majority of their points came from 3 point shots. There must have been 15 foul shots. In the end we went into overtime (I had never seen overtime in basketball before!). It was such a close game. I think we spent more time in time-outs during overtime than we did actually playing! I think we won by 5 points, (67-62…?) but I can’t really remember…

The event doubled as a spirit competition between the residence halls for a giant trophy. Obviously, my building (Potomac) won!   The RAC was packed! We started game prep at 4:30. Robyn (my roomie), Damilola, and I went around our hall knocking on doors to get more people to come.  Then we went to the lobby and painted faces and posters. I totally love this stuff. As a building, we walked over to the RAC for a tailgating party/pep rally. 

One random thing I love about basketball games: When the ref makes a call you don’t like, you yell. It’s really stress relieving.   

P.S. Today I learned how to change the font color and insert cool characters like this: ♣  ³ Ü  

Classes, To Do Lists, and Staying on Track February 20, 2008

I failed at getting up at the same time every day and being on a regular schedule… ALREADY! In my defense, having my wisdom teeth out pretty much incapacitated me. I’ve decided to hop right back on it — and it’s practically killing me. Though, that’s mostly because I’m training for a 5k and doing yoga 6 days/week and trying to stay on top of school (which, obviously, is most important but it’s not as exhausting). I can honestly say that I have never been in shape in my life. I’ve also never had straight A’s. (Two lofty goals for the semester…)

I was talking to my R.A. (get to know your R.A., wherever you go), and he showed me a website called “Todoist” (www.todoist.com) that lets you set up a free account and build a personal to do list. It’s so cool. (I also love not having billions of paper scraps with mini to do lists scribbled on them.)

Completely random — I am completely in love with my English class. Take Findlay for English. Best teacher ever. She is engaging and exciting (and she has a Scottish accent!). I have never enjoyed English class this much. I mean, last semester I dropped my English class because the Professor intimidated me. It just goes to show how much the professor affects your performance in the course. Try to get the best professors possible for your learning style, especially in classes you’re not particularly strong in.

As an aside — I just realized how many side thoughts I have interjected. Sorry… I’m having a completely ADD day. Hope I didn’t confuse anyone too much.

WHERE did my week go?! February 11, 2008

Monday I had my wisdom teeth out and the entirety of the week barring today has been a complete blur. For those of you who have yet to get your wisdom teeth pulled, it’s usually not that bad… I didn’t heal properly. I have a dry socket which in essence means that instead of the hole filling in as it heals, it stays a gaping hole collecting all kinds of grossness. So, I have spent the past six days sleeping (or not sleeping, as the case may be) and struggling to eat. I missed two of my hardest days of classes so I’m in for quite a week.

I have my first exam of the semester on Friday. In Physics. Wish me luck… physics requires a lot of thought for me — I have a tendency to get things backwards. On Tuesday, I get to vote in my first ever official election ever! I’m so excited!!! It actually happens that because I have to go back to the dentist (ugh!) tomorrow, I can vote! (At first I was going to request an absentee ballot, but I swear the government must not want us to vote with how difficult they make things.) For everyone who hasn’t registered go to www.rockthevote.com and register because it is SO easy! (That was my little Public Service Announcement of the day.)

I want to write about Recyclemania, but I have to get a bit of work to do before tomorrow. I’ll write again tomorrow to catch up.