Hot and sticky

Ick. I don't like this weather.

So I spent most of the weekend in Elgin. It was a lot of fun and I'm so glad I went. It was a good excuse to visit Amanda and hang out with all the fun people in the Elgin yg. The wedding was good too. It was kind of weird though, brought back a lot of random memories. Like how when I was in kindergarten and I rode the bus to congerville with the triplets; they taught me different words to lots of Christmas carols. I don't know if mom has forgiven them yet for turning 'Joy to the World' into Joy to the world the teacher's dead.... :) Going to the Zoo with Jaclyn's family when I was in gradeschool. Band with Travis in High school. Visiting Kellenbergers in Elgin the Sunday Jaclyn started repenting. Time flies. :) And I got to see Warren- it's been a long time so that was good.

I should start out the year right and hit the books. But I just don't want too. Plus I went to the Eureka library booksale and got a bag of books for $2. I was pretty excited. And I borrowed the next WOT book. So I'll probably spend too much time reading that and not enough doing homework. :) So anyway.
Blessings.

Back to School

I like the first week of school, it's so relaxed. And I have no homework or tests so I got to do some hard core hanging out. I've done something every single night this week- it won't last, but it's been fun! I laughed so hard playing telephone pictionary...wow. Good times.

The guys next door are hosting a concert tonight....they were nailing speakers to their porch roof this afternoon. Definitely didn't want to be around for the craziness so I came home after class. I'm going to Elgin for Travis and Jaclyn's wedding tomorrow night...a little bit out of the way, but this way I can go to W-ton bible study tonight and debunk all claims that I have dropped off the face of the earth. :)

So far the year is off to a good start. Classes are good (most of them anyway) and the new roomies are fun. :) Matt's a shakerite and it's just plain weird. I actually got to talk to Dona at church. I have some good professors this year that are teaching and not just lecturing. My Astronomy prof has been at U of I for 40 yrs and is hilarious! The only thing that would make it better is a good book, but someone isn't on top of www.freewotnow.org requests and I'm still waiting. ;)

Anyway.
Blessings.

Summer time, and the livin is easy...

And it's over. School starts tomorrow. *sigh* Not very excited about the studying. But at least I had a really fun week! I finished my project at work, so I had almost nothing to do. I read books, including my favorite book of the summer, C.S. Lewis' The Great divorce.

Saturday I went shopping with my sister and got stuff. And then I packed up to move back to Chambana. Jakey didn't want to hang out with me so my entire evening was ruined. ;)

We got up early Sunday and went to Champaign church for the new student welcome. It was good...I've almost been in Champaign more times this summer than Washington. I got to show the fam the house...my new room...how filthy the kitchen was. The picnic was a whole lot less awkward this year, it's nice not to be new.

Gab and Meg and I left after supper for Oak Run. We got to hang out with Vinnie and Irene- good times. :) And I did something totally out of character....I actually shared a bed. With two girls. I barely survived.

We spent most of Monday, skiing (I actually got up!), jetskiing, and tubing (I claimed the prize for best wipe out of the year), and getting slightly sunburnt. I didn't drink enough water so I had a slightly unpleasant evening. :) Gab: you have to drink something. Me: I don't wanna! Gab: You have to! Drink it!

Finally spent the night in Champaign last night. Mom came down this morning to help clean the kitchen. It was horribly dirty. But since we had Ash and Chris and Amber helping it only took 3 hours. And it sparkles! We lysoled everything after we found the liquid onions and liquid potatoes. Ugh. Never again. At least we know why we had ants....

So I went and bought some books. And bought groceries because I had nothing to eat. And then I wasn't hungry for any of it so I just ate watermelon with the magazine salesmen. There was a singing at Mike, Josh, Cam, and Kyle's apartment in the ghetto. However, I was having a hard time not coveting their kitchen and humongous bathrooms. *sigh* It was good times.

I should go to bed tonight so I'm well rested for the first day of school. Or not. :)
Blessings.

I'm not jealous.

I'm really, really, really, really not.






O.K. maybe I am just a little.




Fine, I'm a lot jealous.




*sigh* maybe next summer.

Quality time with quality people :)

So I had another wonderful weekend. Friday after work I headed to Gab's house at Oak Run for food, singing and fun. It was a very random group of people, and it was great! We played "I have never" for a long time. I was the only person who had watched all three Lord of the Rings movies back to back (and they were the extended editions). :)

I got home pretty late so I slept in on Saturday, then packed up Matt's truck and took some stuff down to school. I got my new room cleaned and pretty well put together. I like it! Even though the floor definitely slants. And they just covered up the moldy wall with paneling. Woot.

I was out shopping for stuff for next year, and got a phone call to go mini-golfing with some people. Keith and Emily were around, and Bob, B.J., Brent, Mark, and Eric were all in town so I met them at the Shaker and the driveway and all the street parking was taken so I parked in the front yard. :) I like driving trucks. According to B.J. I won at mini-golf (since I did get the highest score...), and then we went to TGIF for supper. When we got back to the Saltshaker Meg joined us and we played Poker with somebody's change jar. When the groomsmen got back from the rehearsal dinner, we still were playing cards and they pulled out the songbooks and we sang for a while. It was pretty funny- poker and hymns just don't go together. :) I left around 12:30 and went to walmart- I was going to go earlier that afternoon, but my shopping was interrupted by mini-golf. So I got to bed pretty late.

The wedding Sunday was wonderful. Church was packed! Brent and J-nelle were so cute. And they both said yes so it was a success. Their reception was in the Illini Union- very cool- and the orange Shaker ties were awesome!

After the reception I loaded up my bed from last year, and had an awful time trying to strap it in. I couldn't get Matt's tailgate to stay shut, so I had to make sure that Gab and I weren't going to be picking up mattresses on the highway. Then Gab, being the genius she is, figured out how to keep it shut. :)

We went to Mike, Cameron, and Josh's new apartment for pizza. It was fun, but we left for home pretty early. So anyway. One more week til school. I like summer better I think.

When Life gets tough, use a bigger hammer

Hm...so anyway. My brothers are in Canada. I am soooooo jealous. Anybody want to go to the BWCA next summer??

I've been working on formulating a resin and it's finally at the point where we are testing strength, glass transition, etc. So I poured my lovely polymer into the mold and put it in the oven overnight. I must have put a little too much in, plus the mold isn't very tight, and it's sticky stuff. My mold was stuck to the tray so tight it took my boss and a hammer to separate them. We bent the tray. And I was scraping polymer off the mold with a razor blade. *sigh* The next batch I got smart and covered everything with tinfoil.

Today was my 'going away' party (with the other 2 students), even though I have one more week. FIO is a fun unit. :) We went to the Mongolian grill- different but good. And then somebody put too much sample in the DSC and it got all over and needs to be cleaned so I didn't have to do anything for the rest of the day. I read a book.

Then my boss smashed my reaction flask with a hammer....

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