My TI-89 (titanium edition)

....has a german setting!

Sweet.

Too bad I don't know what it means.

Life is Good

So I had a wonderful weekend. I got to go home, our singing went well, and we had enough chairs for everybody. Having the older people there was great! Dad asked them to give off their favorite songs and share why they meant something to them. It was really cool to hear, and I think they all had a good time. We even had sandwiches left over so I don't have to buy lunch meat this week. :)

Saturday morning I got up at five (way too early) and left for Chestnut Mountain with Heidi, Kendra, and Shelly. We had so much fun!! I haven't been skiing for at least 2 years so I was afraid I would be really bad but I managed to not die so that was good. We all got to teach kendra how to ski...or something, I think she picked it up pretty fast considering. O, and it drizzled pretty much all day. I didn't really notice because it was warm enough to not be miserable and I didn't feel wet until right before we left. And the fake snow was actually soft, not icy. So it was all good. :)

I got to drive and they were all supposed to keep me awake on the way home. They of course promptly fell asleep, lulled by the rain and the overly warm car (for some reason they didn't agree that I would stay awake better if it was just slightly chilly). But we made it, and in plenty (less than an hour) of time to make it to some very unique testimonies. :)

So now I'm tired and sore, and back in Champaign and I really don't want to work on my homework yet.
Blessings.

I am tired

and sore.

Shakespeare

I have been in a really weird mood this week. I keep laughing at things that my roommates insist aren't funny. (Shows what they know) And I keep having these random flashes of Shakespeare. When I was walking in the wind yesterday it totally reminded me of when Benvolio and Mercutio are teasing Juliet's nurse in Romeo and Juliet. "A sail, a sail..." Which makes sense because my skirt and scarf and hair were blowing everywhere. But "To be or not to be..."? Much as I like Hamlet, I'm not sure how he applies to my life today.

I should be trying to understand my P-chem lab for tomorrow. Something about gas viscosity.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow....(see what I mean? more random Hamlet!) I am skipping out of Horticulture 20 minutes early and going to ISU bible study! Hooray!

So no one else in my house thought this was funny- I laughed out loud.

The things I get myself into

...or should I say, the things Gab gets me into. :)
Last week when Gab and I were randomly at the mall together, Gab got snagged by a local Mary Kay consultant, and she signed us up for make overs. So last night, Gab and Ashley and I went to her house and got beautified. Or they did anyway. I think I ended up looking pretty normal. We took pictures, but you can't see them because I don't have a digital camera.

My newspaper.
I know I only got a 16 week subscription to the Tribune last semester, and I was getting ready to figure out how to make it keep coming once it stopped. But it never stopped! Hooray!! So I can still read the comics with my oatmeal in the mornings.

I'm excited to go home this weekend. We are having a singing at our house Friday, and there are testimonies in Washington Saturday. The singing should be interesting, as I invited most of the older people in church. We don't have many since Washington is a very young church, not many people who go there have grown up there, but it might be kind of tight at our house. Good times.

I love random quotes. "I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." ~Bloch

Blessings.

Linear Algebra

So I got my textbook from Half.com for $35.00- and it's the low price edition! Which means it's paperback, it's not in color, and it has a big banner on it that reads:
"This edition is manufactured in India and is authorized for sale only in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Circulation of this edition outside of these territories is UNAUTHORIZED."

What I don't understand is that it is all in English. Wouldn't they rather have a textbook in their own language? And should I be worried about getting arrested with my unauthorized edition??

Hm..just in case, we never had this conversation.

School

This semester doesn't look like it will be as bad as I thought. I will have a lot more homework than I did last semester- not necessarily a bad thing.

Last night was singing at the home. We had a good turnout- of guys anyway. There were only four girls so I think just about every song went way flat. :) Thank goodness we have an audience that can't tell.

So. No homework yet so I have nothing to do. I wish it was warm out. At least it's finally sunny!

Chambana

So I'm back at school...woot. I'm not really looking forward to this semester since it's going to be hard and I'm lazy and anyway. :)

I'm listening to some Mussorgsky I got for Christmas and I'm having really weird flashbacks to marching band.

News flash

Medical personal were called to Wyss Farms Inc. this afternoon after the discovery of an apparent suicide. The chicken house on this quiet farm is usually a sleepy place, full of hens purposefully going about their business.
Today, however, was different. When the youngest Miss Wyss returned from school and went out to do her chicken chores she discovered a grisly scene. "The first thing I saw when I walked in the door was the rooster hanging there, and the hens were all quiet," said Miss Wyss. "He was obviously dead and it was obviously suicide because he left a note." The note she mentioned was found next to the body, it reads as follows:

Suicid note
nobody likes me
michelle hates me
goodby crul world
A. Rooster

Although there were several eyewitnesses, they have refused to speak to the press at this time. All we have heard is "cluck, cluck" from the hens present at the time of the incident.
"I can't say I'm sad that awful rooster is dead," said Miss Wyss, "at least now I won't have to defend myself with a board when I do the chores."

The case is currently under investigation. Fowl play has not been ruled out(pun intended), and investigators have been questioning several suspects, including the head of the farming corporation.

Books and things

I only have a week left of break- that kind of makes me sad. But I just started reading Ivanhoe and it's so good and it makes me happy. :)

My favorite part of break and summer is that I actually have time to read. I still have a few books to get through before I've read all the books that I own. I am a total bibliophile! My book shelves were full years ago, now I have books stacked two deep and laid across the top and some on the floor. O well, my dad is worse.
So far over break I have read:
This Present Darkness
The Girl of the Limberlost
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Ivanhoe.

The list of books I haven't started is much longer. And I never did finish Gulliver's Travels. And I still have a gift certificate to B & N. Ah, well. So many books, so little time.

I got to sing at the home with Washington for the first time in ages Friday night! It was great fun. And then my dumb brother knew a "short cut" to Heidi's afterwards and 4 cars followed me as we went in circles. Too funny!

Friday is my last night at Lindy's (for the second time- hopefully they will be nice) and I will be sad again. Unless I work prom it will probably be the last time I get to work there.

Well anyway, I am going to go read Ivanhoe. :)

Happy New Year

I forgot how little I get to use the computer when I'm sharing it with 5 other people. :)

My Christmas was wonderful. All of my cousins were in town except for Brent and Beth. We had Rook shirts made at Brunk's- they look great! We played lots of it while the K-bergers were here. :) My little brother "pimped out" a hotwheels El Camino for me. Orange body and purple racing stripes. Its...um..really cool. Or something. :) I also got two jars of Marion berry jam!! I was so excited since I haven't had any since I was in Oregon.

I spent New Years eve with the Washington Young Group. It was great fun. I'm looking forward to Friday night at the nursing home because I haven't been there since school started.

I worked at Lindy's last week. And this week. And next week. :) I love that place.

Tomorrow we're going to Chicago overnight, and I finally get to go to the Pompeii exhibit. And see the mummies and Sue and all the other cool things at the Field Museum that I haven't seen in ages. :) Should be fun.

I'm not looking forward to going back to school, but I do miss Gab and the rest of my roomies!

Blessings.