Well, I am at work with little to do, so I am using this time to write since I know it’s been a while. My past week (2nd week of school) and start of this one has been interesting. I’m of course busy, but I don’t think I will ever start a blog that does not declare my life chaotic. I guess I will hit highlights. But know overall, school is going ok, HARD, but ok. Social life is taken up by Sing Song. Ok! When school started I came slightly “sick” with a runny nose and lots of coughing. Well last Wednesday, I started getting a crazy migraine and sharp chest pains, so mum said it was time to see the campus doctor. I signed in RIGHT BEFORE like 8 other people, so that was nice timing. Went through the nurse process, but I was not too please with her intelligence level. Then, I had to wait in a back room for the doctor, OVER an HOUR! No joke I felt so bad I just laid down on the bed and dozed off. Turns out I had a severe sinus infection with 103 degree fever. Needless to say, I stayed in my room after that to keep my sickness to myself. Missed classes Thursday, but with doctors note, I will not get counted absent and be able to make up quizzes, which is nice. I’m MUCH better, but still coughing and drainage. My antibiotics go through the end of this week, so hopefully it will leave. Sing Song is the other big event of my life. The past few times I was either not able to sing or I just sounded terrible. We’ve learned some choreography now and I’m looking forward to learning the rest. We are doing alright, our show is pretty good, and apparently good rumors are going around, there is just one section we’re struggling with. Bobby our director is getting snappier and snappier each practice, which is a lot, so it escalates fast. I’m REAL excited though, because my whole family including my Gramma and brother and sis-in-law are coming up, PLUS my best friend Tori, PLUS my good friends Elisabeth and Christina! So it is just going to be a blast! We haven’t gotten a schedule for the weekend of the show, so I hope I’m able to spend plenty of time with them!!! Work is going good. I REALLY enjoy the girl Carrie I work with almost every day. I work with Callie on Fridays for just two hours, and I thought she didn’t like me, but she’s warmed up to me now I guess. I went crazy here though….I’ve re-organized!! And cleaned!!! The back end of the office has this hallway that has SO much stuff in it and it was so unorganized. It all started when we got a shipment of coffee and I organized the coffee area. Then they loved that, so when it was slow one day and I was by myself, I re-organized the paper shelf. TODAY…I cleaned up the end of the hall way where tons was just shoved, cleaned up some in the filing section, and cleaned up the kitchenette area (a cabinet and countertop). So I’ve cleaned a lot, but they love it! I was scared to do anything when I first started working, but I slowly eased into it because it was just too nasty and dysfunctional. I’ve got 27 minutes left to go and I wish I had SOMETHING to do! But I will stop rambling. Tonight, I’m going to the basketball game because we’re playing our rivals Charleton and then I’ve got loads of school to do! Pray for me! I’m handing in my first case study tomorrow in Developmental Psychology! I had to observe, analyze, and write this specific type of 4 page paper involving theories and sections of developmental psychology and blah blah over a newborn to 4 years old. I used Aiden as my subject, because I couldn’t analyze any live kids without contaminating them! Haha ANYWAY! Pray that’s up to par! Ok! Well I love you all!
_SarahCorinne
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Second half of first week
My First week continues…
Well I have returned to each class now. Everything continues to go smoothly. Wednesday I went to art. I was supposed to sit with my sisters friend that I mentioned Jeremy. He said he needed a sitting buddy because he didn’t know anyone else. So I went and didn’t see him, so I sat with Tiffany again and just watched for him. I never saw him until 15 minutes AFTER class started! So that didn’t work. I figured I’d facebook him before Friday and we would work it out. Class was interesting! We were starting with WHY study art, and I found the different perspectives really interesting. I think I might of messed up the order of my classes in my last blog, because after Art I have psychology, and I might of switched that last blog with Bible, I don’t know. ANYWAY, I went to PSYCHOLOGY. We got into more of a lecture. We were talking about different theories/theorists. I REALLY enjoy my teacher! We had great discussion and she really keeps my attention. I left there for English. We had pretty interesting discussion, my teach is still crazy loopy, but I think it will be ok. We are writing A LOT including a research paper which is yuck, but oh well. After class I had to talk to her. I got an excused absence for Friday. I am going with Madalyn to a funeral. There is a program here call Big Brothers, Big Sisters. You adopt a “little” and do fun stuff with them. Well, the other night when she called her little, she found out her mom died the night before!!! So yeah, we were going to go to that and would miss our 10:00 classes, but it was excused. Then we went to chapel. We had a female teacher come and speak. She gave points of encouragement and points on how to make it through the year. It was kind of repetitive like get sleep, do your reading, don’t skip chapel, blah blah. Haha, But she seemed very nice and a fun lady. Then was lunch at the amazing bean haha. I had a grilled chicken salad, YUM! I hit work at 1:00. Mrs. Debbie was CRAVING a brownie, SO she sent me and Carrie to get brownies from chic-fil-a on campus for the whole office! Apparently, if they want something like that on campus, or at Sonic during HAPPY HOUR, they send us and buy something for us too!!! If you work mornings they buy you breakfast, too bad I never do haha. Nothing much happened that evening. Thursday- My day started with disgusting Biology. We went through a whole lecture and it was indeed torture. She made us get up and stretch twice, UGH. Afterward, I went to Madalyn’s room to walk to Bible. She had just gotten up, but she made it in time to leave for class. We had four minutes when we got to class, so we went to get a Gatorade from the little café down the hall. This will possibly become a tradition, we just have to watch our bean bucks! Class was kind of long. We basically summed up creation to Acts. Haha So it was a lot of lecture, but now we can get into more discussion which I LOVE! I left there to meet up with the rest of my gang for chapel. But we didn’t know where to go, so instead Madalyn and I went to the library. We both just checked our email and I got soup for lunch. We were basically stalling before my 12:00 and Madalyn was sweet enough to stall with me! We printed off our music for sing song. We’re excited! I then went to speech. Our teacher is the director of the debate team, so she was on a debate trip. SO, we joined with another Coms class. I did NOT enjoy it, well the talking before class was fun, but once class started, the teacher went SOOO fast that notes were impossible! It’s a GOOD thing that our book has the definitions we need. We take online quizzes that are timed weekly. I actually need to do that!!! After this class I was done until work. I had to go to work at 2:00, so I came back to my room for an hour to change (I can’t wear jeans with holes to work) and do some school before. Kate came by to pick up stuff I had of hers and she also gave me a ride to work. Work was fine. Same stuff, I did learn how to do a new certain process and that’s good. Then I went with Madalyn to the mall. We did a little shopping and by we, I mean HER haha. Dinner at the bean with the girls. Then I got my stuff and met Sam and Ben at the library. Stayed there until I met Madalyn at the campus center at 9:25 for Sing Song practice at 9:30. SO exciting! I realized I hadn’t taken my strattera for the past two days, so YEAH, I was a little crazy. My throats been in BAD shape even with meds, so I sounded like a man. Haha. But our show is a combination of 8 songs and we got through 4!!! So yeah! It was fun. After I spent an hour or so with Keith on the phone. I was starting my homework and working on things while we talked. We got some EXCITING news! Keith’s coached had a private talk with him. He was scared, but his coach said he saw SERIOUS potential in Keith’s skills and he sees him playing for varsity (he’s on JV now) next year, if not later this season!!! I am so proud of him and he’s really excited! So that’s awesome! Eventually, we got off so I could shower and go to bed. I wasn’t done with homework until 1:30. Then showered and went to bed. Oh my, this semester will be long! My first week is almost done!
Well I have returned to each class now. Everything continues to go smoothly. Wednesday I went to art. I was supposed to sit with my sisters friend that I mentioned Jeremy. He said he needed a sitting buddy because he didn’t know anyone else. So I went and didn’t see him, so I sat with Tiffany again and just watched for him. I never saw him until 15 minutes AFTER class started! So that didn’t work. I figured I’d facebook him before Friday and we would work it out. Class was interesting! We were starting with WHY study art, and I found the different perspectives really interesting. I think I might of messed up the order of my classes in my last blog, because after Art I have psychology, and I might of switched that last blog with Bible, I don’t know. ANYWAY, I went to PSYCHOLOGY. We got into more of a lecture. We were talking about different theories/theorists. I REALLY enjoy my teacher! We had great discussion and she really keeps my attention. I left there for English. We had pretty interesting discussion, my teach is still crazy loopy, but I think it will be ok. We are writing A LOT including a research paper which is yuck, but oh well. After class I had to talk to her. I got an excused absence for Friday. I am going with Madalyn to a funeral. There is a program here call Big Brothers, Big Sisters. You adopt a “little” and do fun stuff with them. Well, the other night when she called her little, she found out her mom died the night before!!! So yeah, we were going to go to that and would miss our 10:00 classes, but it was excused. Then we went to chapel. We had a female teacher come and speak. She gave points of encouragement and points on how to make it through the year. It was kind of repetitive like get sleep, do your reading, don’t skip chapel, blah blah. Haha, But she seemed very nice and a fun lady. Then was lunch at the amazing bean haha. I had a grilled chicken salad, YUM! I hit work at 1:00. Mrs. Debbie was CRAVING a brownie, SO she sent me and Carrie to get brownies from chic-fil-a on campus for the whole office! Apparently, if they want something like that on campus, or at Sonic during HAPPY HOUR, they send us and buy something for us too!!! If you work mornings they buy you breakfast, too bad I never do haha. Nothing much happened that evening. Thursday- My day started with disgusting Biology. We went through a whole lecture and it was indeed torture. She made us get up and stretch twice, UGH. Afterward, I went to Madalyn’s room to walk to Bible. She had just gotten up, but she made it in time to leave for class. We had four minutes when we got to class, so we went to get a Gatorade from the little café down the hall. This will possibly become a tradition, we just have to watch our bean bucks! Class was kind of long. We basically summed up creation to Acts. Haha So it was a lot of lecture, but now we can get into more discussion which I LOVE! I left there to meet up with the rest of my gang for chapel. But we didn’t know where to go, so instead Madalyn and I went to the library. We both just checked our email and I got soup for lunch. We were basically stalling before my 12:00 and Madalyn was sweet enough to stall with me! We printed off our music for sing song. We’re excited! I then went to speech. Our teacher is the director of the debate team, so she was on a debate trip. SO, we joined with another Coms class. I did NOT enjoy it, well the talking before class was fun, but once class started, the teacher went SOOO fast that notes were impossible! It’s a GOOD thing that our book has the definitions we need. We take online quizzes that are timed weekly. I actually need to do that!!! After this class I was done until work. I had to go to work at 2:00, so I came back to my room for an hour to change (I can’t wear jeans with holes to work) and do some school before. Kate came by to pick up stuff I had of hers and she also gave me a ride to work. Work was fine. Same stuff, I did learn how to do a new certain process and that’s good. Then I went with Madalyn to the mall. We did a little shopping and by we, I mean HER haha. Dinner at the bean with the girls. Then I got my stuff and met Sam and Ben at the library. Stayed there until I met Madalyn at the campus center at 9:25 for Sing Song practice at 9:30. SO exciting! I realized I hadn’t taken my strattera for the past two days, so YEAH, I was a little crazy. My throats been in BAD shape even with meds, so I sounded like a man. Haha. But our show is a combination of 8 songs and we got through 4!!! So yeah! It was fun. After I spent an hour or so with Keith on the phone. I was starting my homework and working on things while we talked. We got some EXCITING news! Keith’s coached had a private talk with him. He was scared, but his coach said he saw SERIOUS potential in Keith’s skills and he sees him playing for varsity (he’s on JV now) next year, if not later this season!!! I am so proud of him and he’s really excited! So that’s awesome! Eventually, we got off so I could shower and go to bed. I wasn’t done with homework until 1:30. Then showered and went to bed. Oh my, this semester will be long! My first week is almost done!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
My Firsts....
Well, so my mom will kill me if I don’t do this, so here I am. My first week of my second semester of college is just about over. I guess I will share all my firsts since I’ve been back.
Sunday night was my first time to finally see Madalyn again. It took forever though, but that’s ok. We got in town, I dropped Kate at her house so she could shower before going to see some friends. I came back and Kimberly came down to help me unload. She only helped me with one load, because I had SO much stuff and I felt bad asking for anything more than that. I know this sounds backwards and ridiculous, but I got my father’s stubborn genes unfortunately. After tons of time of going up and down three stories, I had to stop. I left some stuff to get later, but I just couldn’t do anymore. I didn’t want to unload my stuff too much because I was waiting to talk to the resident director about switching rooms. So I just got necessities moved and straightened up, made my bed, waiting for Kate to call. She finally was ready, so I went to her house and then she dropped me back off at Nelson. I went to see Madalyn and it was SO exciting to see her. We went and got drinks at Sonic. NOT Dr. Pepper though, she is quitting with her NEW BF for a lil over a month. So, I will also be limiting myself even more than 1 on Tuesday and Thursdays. It will PROBABLY just be one a week, MAYBE two if it’s a bad day. That’s my “juice” of choice, so deal with it haha. So we went driving for a bit and caught up. It was nice. Got back to my room, settled in some more, talked to Keith, and went to bed. OH, I had not blogged over break so a little update, Keith and I are back together if you didn’t know. After a lot of talking, we are back together as of the 22nd of December and VERY happy. We both used the 2 ½ months apart to confirm that our feelings couldn’t be replaced by other individuals and gaining a healthier, more independent outlook. SO! We are very happy and I’m sure you’re being hearing more about him. Monday-I got up and had my 8:00 Art. It’s in my old psychology classroom, so I went to sit where I always sat and my friend Tiffany was there. So I’m glad I have a friend in that class. I then saw a guy friend Jeremy, of my sisters. I’ve only met him like once. But I saw him look at me weird, and then keep looking at me confused. I knew immediately he mistook me for Kate, but that’s ok haha. I’m used to be knowing by her here. I actually got yelled at from a car while crossing the street if I was a Whitworth, he said I looked just like her haha. This is a daily part of my life here. Art was fine, my teacher seems ok. I can tell he tries to be funny, and he’s mot, but that’s fine haha. I love art and so I’m looking forward to this class. Immediately after that I had my psychology class. It’s in Chambers Hall, a building I’ve never been in before, and I’m a little scared of it haha. I couldn’t find my class, but it’s not because I’m stupid, it’s because the building is CONFUSING! But a professor helped me out. My psychology class is developmental and I’m real excited about it. I already LOVE the topics we’re starting to cover. My teacher reminds me of Mrs. Terri Reed SO much! Then I had to head straight to English class. My teacher is a little wacky and seems like she could be from Macnolia….haha…but she’s nice. Then I met up with Madalyn and Riane for chapel. Chapel was good, TONS of people of course haha. Then I had “free-time” until work. I worked on unpacking because I didn’t get much of anything done before going to sleep Sunday night. It was my first day of work. I was nervous, but ready. It went well. Carrie, the sophomore that works with me and is really nice was there. She has been “training” me this week. However, my “training” isn’t very thorough. But I know how to work with the files, I’ve been making on-campus deliveries, handling the mail, and I know how to do some stuff with our Legacy group request forms. It’s all kind of confusing, but that’s ok. Right now, theres this BIG project we’re working on that basically requires me to look at almost every file we have, which is A LOT, and search for several pieces of info. Like if we’re the executor of their will, if we have copies of whatever they’ve contributed to ACU, its real lengthy and tedious, but I don’t mind. I am the main student working on it, and I know how to do this, so if all else fails I work on that. And then we always check paper in the copiers, check the coffee maker and set it up for tomorrow, check the cokes, hit lights, lock doors, etc. I like it. After work Madalyn came over and we watched Maury while I unpacked and cleaned. Then we met Riane for dinner. It was good to see everyone.
Tuesday-My day again starts at 8:00 with biology. My teacher is crazy! She requires us to stand up every 20 minutes or so because people’s attention span is only 12 minutes. She talks about random things. Her outlines are frustrating, because they’re keyword outlines for our notes, and they make little sense. Hopefully, after my first test I’ll figure out her system. I’m supposed to go by her office by the end of this coming week so that should be interesting! After biology I went to Madalyn’s room while she finished getting ready. We have Bible this semester together and it’s amazing. We’re so excited. Then there was chapel and lunch. I rushed to my room, grabbed a leftover burrito, and left again for my 12:00 speech class. My teacher is a young, pretty woman, so all the guys are heaven. She seems like a great teacher, but the guys are going to have to stop being so lame haha. Then I had work again. I came back to my room and did a little work before going to the office at 2:00. It was good. Same sort of stuff. Madalyn and I chilled in my room working and stuff until our FIRST SING SONG meeting!!! It was short and just boring business stuff. So that was that. Got back to my room and spent about a little over an hour talking to Keith after my shower. He was doing great. He feels good about all of his classes EXCEPT Astronomy…lame…haha. He had to choose between several courses under a required subject and that was the only one available with his schedule, he is not happy haha. However, he is working with his advisor on other possibilities, because he won’t do good if he’s not excited about it, if we waited until next semester he could take another course under that same required field and actually LOVE it, so we shall see. After we talked I took a shower and went to bed!
I shall stop because I’ve said too much! But I will blog more often I promise, just be patient because I barely have ANY free time when I’m not studying, but I’ll do my best. Love you all!
_SarahCorinne
Sunday night was my first time to finally see Madalyn again. It took forever though, but that’s ok. We got in town, I dropped Kate at her house so she could shower before going to see some friends. I came back and Kimberly came down to help me unload. She only helped me with one load, because I had SO much stuff and I felt bad asking for anything more than that. I know this sounds backwards and ridiculous, but I got my father’s stubborn genes unfortunately. After tons of time of going up and down three stories, I had to stop. I left some stuff to get later, but I just couldn’t do anymore. I didn’t want to unload my stuff too much because I was waiting to talk to the resident director about switching rooms. So I just got necessities moved and straightened up, made my bed, waiting for Kate to call. She finally was ready, so I went to her house and then she dropped me back off at Nelson. I went to see Madalyn and it was SO exciting to see her. We went and got drinks at Sonic. NOT Dr. Pepper though, she is quitting with her NEW BF for a lil over a month. So, I will also be limiting myself even more than 1 on Tuesday and Thursdays. It will PROBABLY just be one a week, MAYBE two if it’s a bad day. That’s my “juice” of choice, so deal with it haha. So we went driving for a bit and caught up. It was nice. Got back to my room, settled in some more, talked to Keith, and went to bed. OH, I had not blogged over break so a little update, Keith and I are back together if you didn’t know. After a lot of talking, we are back together as of the 22nd of December and VERY happy. We both used the 2 ½ months apart to confirm that our feelings couldn’t be replaced by other individuals and gaining a healthier, more independent outlook. SO! We are very happy and I’m sure you’re being hearing more about him. Monday-I got up and had my 8:00 Art. It’s in my old psychology classroom, so I went to sit where I always sat and my friend Tiffany was there. So I’m glad I have a friend in that class. I then saw a guy friend Jeremy, of my sisters. I’ve only met him like once. But I saw him look at me weird, and then keep looking at me confused. I knew immediately he mistook me for Kate, but that’s ok haha. I’m used to be knowing by her here. I actually got yelled at from a car while crossing the street if I was a Whitworth, he said I looked just like her haha. This is a daily part of my life here. Art was fine, my teacher seems ok. I can tell he tries to be funny, and he’s mot, but that’s fine haha. I love art and so I’m looking forward to this class. Immediately after that I had my psychology class. It’s in Chambers Hall, a building I’ve never been in before, and I’m a little scared of it haha. I couldn’t find my class, but it’s not because I’m stupid, it’s because the building is CONFUSING! But a professor helped me out. My psychology class is developmental and I’m real excited about it. I already LOVE the topics we’re starting to cover. My teacher reminds me of Mrs. Terri Reed SO much! Then I had to head straight to English class. My teacher is a little wacky and seems like she could be from Macnolia….haha…but she’s nice. Then I met up with Madalyn and Riane for chapel. Chapel was good, TONS of people of course haha. Then I had “free-time” until work. I worked on unpacking because I didn’t get much of anything done before going to sleep Sunday night. It was my first day of work. I was nervous, but ready. It went well. Carrie, the sophomore that works with me and is really nice was there. She has been “training” me this week. However, my “training” isn’t very thorough. But I know how to work with the files, I’ve been making on-campus deliveries, handling the mail, and I know how to do some stuff with our Legacy group request forms. It’s all kind of confusing, but that’s ok. Right now, theres this BIG project we’re working on that basically requires me to look at almost every file we have, which is A LOT, and search for several pieces of info. Like if we’re the executor of their will, if we have copies of whatever they’ve contributed to ACU, its real lengthy and tedious, but I don’t mind. I am the main student working on it, and I know how to do this, so if all else fails I work on that. And then we always check paper in the copiers, check the coffee maker and set it up for tomorrow, check the cokes, hit lights, lock doors, etc. I like it. After work Madalyn came over and we watched Maury while I unpacked and cleaned. Then we met Riane for dinner. It was good to see everyone.
Tuesday-My day again starts at 8:00 with biology. My teacher is crazy! She requires us to stand up every 20 minutes or so because people’s attention span is only 12 minutes. She talks about random things. Her outlines are frustrating, because they’re keyword outlines for our notes, and they make little sense. Hopefully, after my first test I’ll figure out her system. I’m supposed to go by her office by the end of this coming week so that should be interesting! After biology I went to Madalyn’s room while she finished getting ready. We have Bible this semester together and it’s amazing. We’re so excited. Then there was chapel and lunch. I rushed to my room, grabbed a leftover burrito, and left again for my 12:00 speech class. My teacher is a young, pretty woman, so all the guys are heaven. She seems like a great teacher, but the guys are going to have to stop being so lame haha. Then I had work again. I came back to my room and did a little work before going to the office at 2:00. It was good. Same sort of stuff. Madalyn and I chilled in my room working and stuff until our FIRST SING SONG meeting!!! It was short and just boring business stuff. So that was that. Got back to my room and spent about a little over an hour talking to Keith after my shower. He was doing great. He feels good about all of his classes EXCEPT Astronomy…lame…haha. He had to choose between several courses under a required subject and that was the only one available with his schedule, he is not happy haha. However, he is working with his advisor on other possibilities, because he won’t do good if he’s not excited about it, if we waited until next semester he could take another course under that same required field and actually LOVE it, so we shall see. After we talked I took a shower and went to bed!
I shall stop because I’ve said too much! But I will blog more often I promise, just be patient because I barely have ANY free time when I’m not studying, but I’ll do my best. Love you all!
_SarahCorinne
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