Done!

Woo hoo! After a ROUGH last couple days, I can finally kick back and relax.... sort of. It just so happened that ALL of my finals/papers/projects for my classes were due on the same day, yesterday. Wednesday was definitely an all-nighter, and yesterday was exhausting, hopping around from finishing one thing to the next. But now that it's all done, I can relax and focus on the more FUN obligations I have going on... like getting everything in line for my new apartment! I will be moving in in 9 days, which is CRAZY! My boyfriend graduates on Sunday, and we will be finishing up with that and going straight to Illinois to get everything settled before we both start our new jobs. It's a very exciting... so much to get figured out in so little time!

Long Weekend, Long Week

Well, today was the last day of TWO of my classes, which is a real upper compared to the long week I have ahead of me. This weekend was long too, but in a good way. It was Springfest here, where we have a sort of carnival atmosphere all day and then bands at night. My sorority did a fundraiser with Merriman, "Pie a Pi," where people could pay to smush pies in our faces. There was also a cookout, an obstacle course, one of those bunjee races, and a mechanical bull. At night, we had two bands perform... too bad we had absolutely horrible weather. It was freezing out... we had really bad weather Friday night (the tornado drill even went off), and that must have ushered in some cold air. It is sort of ridiculous, but we made do... yet it was sort of snowing/sleeting today, and I don't know how much more I can take!
I have quite the week ahead of me as well. Besides wrapping up classes, I have an induction to the Laurel Society on Wednesday, a take-home final for one class due on Thursday, a final paper for another class due on Thursday, and another in-class essay final. On top of all of that, I'm trying to wrap up some projects for all three internships, while still attempting to stay sane! In light of those things, I think it's safe to say I'll update this again on Friday to prove that I survived...

Meh Monday

My Besties and I at Formal


Our Team Together Watching the Tournament
So starts a new week, and YUCK. Yay for the weather, boo for the Monday part. I got out of my internship early today to take a prospective student out to lunch... she's a former student of my mom's from back home, so she wanted to eat with me specifically to ask me questions about what it's like to come from that area and go here. She was super sweet, and I'm pretty sure she's coming here next year (fingers crossed...) so we'll see. That wasn't the bad part. Neither was going to my mailbox and finding out the Crump Phi Beta Kappa award I won at the awards convocation was a $cash$ award. All of the makings for a great day, but then I had a group presentation to give, and I'm not too certain our professor liked it too much. Sucky thing is we went first and thought we were doing what she wanted, but as the first group, it's always kind of a hit or miss... and I'm kind of a freak about grades so that wiped out a lot of the "good" in my day.

On a brighter side, the weekend was great. Formal was amazing, we won our frisbee game on Saturday, and the fundraiser made over $5,000, which is the most I think it's ever made... weekends seem to be my forte, so this week can't go fast enough...

TGIF!

Ah this has been a long long week, but just one more class, and it's finally over! And it should be a fun weekend too... tonight is Phi Kappa Pi (Merriman)'s spring formal, so somehow after class I have to quick get all pretty, and we will be taking buses to the Wedgewood Country Club in Omro. I'm really excited because formals themselves are always an amazing time, but seriously, what beats an excuse to get all dressed up?!
Then tomorrow is the long-awaited Merriman Ultimate Frisbee for Leukemia tournament... if you've been keeping up with some of my other blogs, you'll know that this is something we've been fundraising for a LONG time for... selling hot dogs, putting jars around town, sending out letters for donations, etc... and we've also been practicing the game so our team doesn't embarrass ourselves this year. It is forcasted to rain, but at this point, I really don't care. Rain or shine, our team will be out there giving it our all, because these months of preparation are not going to be snuffed out because we "might get wet!"

What a Blustery Day

Well it's not quite 70 out, but it is gorgeous, and rather windy. I had a rather unfortunate incident where I came out of the library and my 15 copies of workshop pieces for my creative writing class blew out of my hand and scattered all up and down Hugh's walk. It may even be too windy to play frisbee this afternoon... the girls and I had planned on getting together for some last minute practicing tonight, but we'll see if it works...
AND, it definitely wasn't allergies. I'm sick. I spent all day in bed yesterday and missed my class (luckily, I only have one on Tuesdays). I'm also missing the awards convocation tonight... if we somehow have earned one of the awards that are presented each year, we just get a vague letter inviting us to the convocation. I have no idea what I won, and would have really liked to be there in person, but I guess I'll just have to let the suspense carry over until tomorrow...

Please just be allergies...

My Hot Formal Date and Myself
Today has simultaneously been pretty decent and kind of rough... first of all, the weather is MARVELOUS. In fact, it just might reach 70 degrees on Wednesday! Of course, it couldn't have been like this LAST week for the baseball game, but oh well, water under the bridge, right? On the flip side, I have been physically miserable all day long... congested, sneezing and coughing, pounding headache... all very fun stuff. My boyfriend has been very sick with the same symptoms for the past couple weeks, so I am praying it's just allergies and chalking it up to be related to this beautiful weather... guess I'll have to take a Claritin when I get back to my dorm and discover the truth...
Our formal Saturday was a blast. Yes, it snowed, but it stopped just in time for me to get on the bus, so as to not ruin my pretty pretty hair. One of our sorority sisters has a friend who's a hair dresser, and she came to our floor and professionaly styled our hair for discounted prices.... pretty nifty, I know.
As for this week, I'm donating my time to a horendous group project and shopping IKEA online for furniture for the apartment I'll be moving in in less than a month... I really prefer spending time on one more than the other, bet you can't guess which...

As suspected...

Well, I should just have kept my big mouth shut because I probably jinxed everything... sure enough on Tuesday, we drove all the way to Appleton to go to the baseball game for Blind Bash, and of course big snowballs were falling from the sky. Not even snow flakes... no these things were massive. Needless to say, the game was cancelled and we had to ride all of the way back to school with ornry dates, who we tried to appease with free pizza, but I'm not sure how much good it did...
At least we get refunded the tickets to go on our own whenever we want!
And of course, snow is still forcasted for our spring formal tomorrow... as long as the roads aren't bad, it shouldn't be too big of a deal. It's also supposed to rain for our frisbee tournament to raise money for a leukemia patient next Saturday, but I won't get too worked up until the date nears and that stupid little rain cloud still hovers over the 19th on weather.com.
We are having a fundraiser this weekend to raise more money for the Merriman's Ultimate Frisbee for Leukemia fund, as well as monitoring the jars we have placed around in local businesses, so hopefully we can make a lot of money for the little girl! (Her name is Alyse).
And with any luck, this weather will clear up next week so the girls and I can get some ultimate frisbee practices going... we aren't exactly the best team every year, so we want to improve our status... if the weather would only cooperate...