Today was a fairly average day. I got up, did my laundry, studied, went to class, and then studied some more. The most important thing that I will do today is register for classes, which is the reason for this blog, because I'm procrastinating studying my boring vocabulary for Sociology and am instead typing here. The classes which I'm going to register for are University Physics 2 (PHYS 210), Calculus 2 (MATH 222), Renaissance and the Revolution in Europe (HIST 110), The Global Perspective or something like that, an international Business course (IBUS 200), and 2 music classes. Right now, I will register for 2 Calc 2 classes, because the one I want is full, so I will waitlist that one and will also add the other, in case I can't get into the preferred one. I will also sign up for Choir and the Winds Ensemble, just in case I'm not able to bring my instrument. Anyway, there hasn't been much going on besides studying, eating, and worrying about my classes and homework. I also met with my group for a project for Understanding Music in the Library at 9:30. Well, Time to get ready for bed and then time to register.
Goodnight!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Facial Hair
Thanksgiving with the Risers
On Thursday, we got up whenever. I think it happened to be around 8:30 or 9:00. We ate breakfast with everyone and had a nice home made meal. We had Grits, eggs, bacon, toast, pumpkin bread, and some juices. After breakfast, we, well not me so much, but Mary and Moira, made some pies and butter-horn rolls. We hung out for the rest of the morning and afternoon and Amy and I read some of the homework we had brought. We then played Risk for a while, but Amy and I got taken out rather quickly, so we went back to reading. Before the dinner, George's brother John and his family came over. We played football with his little boys, George and Gordon. Amy, George, George, John, John, Gordon, and I played. I ran a lot faster there than I had in a while, and my lungs started hurting pretty badly... After that, we went and shot the gun. It is a .303 British and has supposedly killed more people than any other make of gun. It was the gun used by the British in both world wars and also in many of their colonial conquests. It was a neat old gun, and had a kick similar to the .243 I thought. We shot at some cans and a trash barrel. After that, we came back to the house for dinner. It was really good and had all of the normal thanksgiving things, except green bean casserole. Something that I thought was interesting was the fact that rice was one of their usual things to eat. I could see why too, because they potatoes weren't too amazing. They weren't bad, but they made them by hand, so they weren't creamed to a pulp. The gravy was really good though. We ate by candle light only, and it was kinda dark. This house in the evenings is pretty dark, because they don't have many bright lights. It makes it feel quite homely, but its not too beneficial for reading. It also was nice to have the fire going most evenings. They also have a dog named Rebel, and with all the combination of smells and the fact that it is an oldish farmhouse, the smell and feel reminds me a lot of my grandparents house in Michigan. At dinner, George (old), distracted his brother and poured some leftover oyster juice in his wine glass. Then Moira told him. When we were eating the pie though at the halftime of our Taboo playing, John (old), George (older)'s brother, put salt and pepper on George (old)'s pie as he was getting some wood. He actually took a big bite though and everyone was laughing at him. They are a pretty funny group. Anyway, we sat around for quite a while and people took turns telling jokes. It was a great time.
On Friday, we got up and had some cereal for breakfast. We did some homework and then had hot turkey sandwiches for lunch. They were really good! After that, we sat around a little while and then got ready to go to the Harry Potter movie. I hadn't seen any of them or read the books, so I needed a quick plot summary of the books, provided by the internet and supplemented by Amy. I got the basic idea, so I was ready to see the movie. It was a pretty intense movie, and I was glad I had seen it. John (George's son) met Amy, Mary, and I at the theater for the Movie. We all watched it and then went to a shopping area for John to get some winter shoes. There was also a Lindt chocolate place there. There were so many delicious kinds there, but I think it would probably be cheaper at Walmart. We then went to 5 guys. It is a really good burger place and you can choose everything you want on it for no extra charge. We also got a large fries for all of us to share and we couldn't even finish them. They were really good, but we only finished about half of them. After dinner, we came back to George and Mary's house and read and studied for a long time.
Saturday morning involved us going Downtown with Mary, because she had some meetings in town. We walked around at this outdoor mall type place and went to some fun shops that had novelties and fun things. We also went to Urban Outfitters, the same store at which I bought my french fries wallet in Denver. They had some cool nick-knacks on sale, which many of you will see later;) We then met back up with Mary and one of her friends and her friend's daughter. We ate at this delicious diner that had breakfast food and I had a egg, ham, and cheese Panini, thanks to Amy. I was being indecisive, so she suggested it for me. It was really good. The down town area is really cool and there are many different places to visit. There was also a farmers market type place on Saturdays, but we didn't get down there by the time we had to leave. We then went back to the house again and studied some more. Most of the studying that I attempted to do wasn't all that productive for this weekend, but it was alright. After a while, we played risk again. I took over Africa from the start, and then George took North and South America. Amy and I fought for Australia, but then after she got a set, she took me out. We then met John at Dr. Ho's pizza place for dinner. It was really good. We had some salad, some pizza, and some delicious desserts. We also saw this guy known as "the waving man." Apparently he stands in the median and waves to people on both sides of the road. Here is a little article about him. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wavingman/ We then went home, finished the game of Risk, though it took a while, and went to bed. Amy, George, and I were all in it til the end and each had our turns of taking over much of the world. First, Amy after she destroyed Mary, then me, then George, who destroyed me and was then able to take out Amy. It is a fun game.
This morning, we got up and ate some Cracklin' Oat Bran. It is really good! I stoked the fire and then we worked on homework for a while. We are leaving today, so I think I will pack up my things now, so we can head back to DC for 2 more intense weeks of School, before I can come home:)
On Friday, we got up and had some cereal for breakfast. We did some homework and then had hot turkey sandwiches for lunch. They were really good! After that, we sat around a little while and then got ready to go to the Harry Potter movie. I hadn't seen any of them or read the books, so I needed a quick plot summary of the books, provided by the internet and supplemented by Amy. I got the basic idea, so I was ready to see the movie. It was a pretty intense movie, and I was glad I had seen it. John (George's son) met Amy, Mary, and I at the theater for the Movie. We all watched it and then went to a shopping area for John to get some winter shoes. There was also a Lindt chocolate place there. There were so many delicious kinds there, but I think it would probably be cheaper at Walmart. We then went to 5 guys. It is a really good burger place and you can choose everything you want on it for no extra charge. We also got a large fries for all of us to share and we couldn't even finish them. They were really good, but we only finished about half of them. After dinner, we came back to George and Mary's house and read and studied for a long time.
Saturday morning involved us going Downtown with Mary, because she had some meetings in town. We walked around at this outdoor mall type place and went to some fun shops that had novelties and fun things. We also went to Urban Outfitters, the same store at which I bought my french fries wallet in Denver. They had some cool nick-knacks on sale, which many of you will see later;) We then met back up with Mary and one of her friends and her friend's daughter. We ate at this delicious diner that had breakfast food and I had a egg, ham, and cheese Panini, thanks to Amy. I was being indecisive, so she suggested it for me. It was really good. The down town area is really cool and there are many different places to visit. There was also a farmers market type place on Saturdays, but we didn't get down there by the time we had to leave. We then went back to the house again and studied some more. Most of the studying that I attempted to do wasn't all that productive for this weekend, but it was alright. After a while, we played risk again. I took over Africa from the start, and then George took North and South America. Amy and I fought for Australia, but then after she got a set, she took me out. We then met John at Dr. Ho's pizza place for dinner. It was really good. We had some salad, some pizza, and some delicious desserts. We also saw this guy known as "the waving man." Apparently he stands in the median and waves to people on both sides of the road. Here is a little article about him. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wavingman/ We then went home, finished the game of Risk, though it took a while, and went to bed. Amy, George, and I were all in it til the end and each had our turns of taking over much of the world. First, Amy after she destroyed Mary, then me, then George, who destroyed me and was then able to take out Amy. It is a fun game.
This morning, we got up and ate some Cracklin' Oat Bran. It is really good! I stoked the fire and then we worked on homework for a while. We are leaving today, so I think I will pack up my things now, so we can head back to DC for 2 more intense weeks of School, before I can come home:)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thanksgiving break :D
Today, I met Amy after her Spanish class, because I didn't have any classes on Wednesday. I had packed up my blue suitcase, so I was ready to go. Clothes... Check! Homework...Check! Electronic devices and other necessities...Check! It was rather cold this morning compared to the other fall weather I had experienced here and it was 44 degrees. I feel a little sorry for everyone back in Montana where it is in the negative range already, but I guess that is the price you pay for being able to see the beautiful mountains and country views all the time.
After Amy's Spanish class, we went to the Library and did some homework. I read and read for my Sociology class, and she did some reading and work for Spanish. After we had all we could take of the homework, (we were getting quite excited for leaving DC on the break), we went and got a grab and go lunch and ate it in her room. It was the first time that we had had a Chicken Caesar wrap and it was pretty good. We usually have the "Hoya Wrap" which has chicken, lettuce, tomato, and some spicyish tangy sauce, but they were out of them, so we obviously got something else. After lunch, we studied in her room for a while and she got all packed and ready to go to Virginia. We did some more homework, but soon got bored with it and then just decided to leave Georgetown at 5:15.
We caught the GUTS bus (Georgetown University Transportation System) and it took us through some narrow streets to the Dupont Circle Metro Stop. On the drive, we squeezed closely between cars, but everyone was safe in the end, so all was well. We carried our 4 bags onto the Metro, which wasn't crowded, because it was rush hour and therefore the trains come quite often, and sat down for the short, 3 stop, ride to Gallery Place-Chinatown. From that stop, we made our way through the maze of escalators, it reminded me somewhat of those pictures with stairs going every which direction, and arrived on H and 7th streets. There was a huge Chinatown Archway there, which was quite elaborate and Chinese looking.
A more intense adventure awaits... To be continued... Tomorrow.
From there, we walked to the McDonalds, because Amy had been craving a Big Mac ever since I had eaten one that night. We arrived there and we felt like the minority for once, because Chinatown had a lot more black, Asian, and Hispanic people than the other parts of the Northwest. We were still technically in the NW as far as addresses went, but were were almost in the NE. (we were on 5th st and counts down going towards the center of town)
I ordered the food and Amy stayed at the table to watch the stuff, and she said some guy that said he was getting water and got lemonade instead, she didn't think he was too smart, because they tried to explain it to him, tried to sit down in my seat without asking her. He was in a fancy suit, but we weren't sure how he got it. After we got our food, we were eating, and this scruffy guy with frizzy hair and crazy intense blue/green eyes, looked at Amy as he was walking by and mumbled something, and she said, "Excuse me," and he gave her this weird look. Then he got some caramel syrup from the little dispenser thing and was drinking it from one of those little cups. He then walked by me and mumbled something and I asked what he had said, and he mentioned that he was related to me. I was pretty sure he wasn't, but he insisted a second time, but I then ignored him. I felt badly for the guy even though he really creeped me out, by talking in such a way that I could hardly understand him, and looking at me with those intense crazy eyes. I then went and got a chicken sandwich and a "McDouble." I was going to give him one, but I was pretty scared so I texted Amy which I should give him, because I wanted to give the other one to someone else. I gave him the double cheese burger, and he was very grateful.
After a little bit, some other lady that seemed a little better off sat down next to him and Amy thought that we should maybe move because there was a lack of seats that forced her to sit by him, but as it turned out they knew eachother. They didn't talk to eachother, but then this other lady came by and sat across from them and she had a backpack and a bag and did talk to the first lady. They were arguing and bickering over the dinner at a church that they didn't get that day as it would usually have been, because the church people said that they were instead going to have a Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. She had a bunch of newspaper clippings that I think were ads and coupons, but I couldn't tell. A little time later, this rather large lady walked in and she was looking unhappy, so Amy smiled at her, and she scowled back! She sat at the last remaining seat at the table of four.
A little later, this other black guy with a basketball cap on came in and stood by that group. Then a little later, he came over to us and introduced himself as Enzel, like Denzel without the D. He said we may have seen him on TV. He liked to joke around a lot as he later told us. He then asked to sit by me and I let him, so he could talk to us. It was quite the experience. It almost smelled as though he had alcohol on his breath, but it may just have been the lack of teeth brushing for a long time. He didn't have one of his rows of teeth, though now I forget which one it was, and I think that was one thing that made me think he hadn't brushed in a while. He was from New Jersey supposedly, and then he said it with the Jersey accent just to be funny. He asked if I balled after he noticed Amy was from Georgetown. He talked to us about basketball for a little bit. I said I didn't ball, and he said, oh yeah, cause your white... We laughed at that. Then he tried to get us to sing some songs, be we could barely understand what he was saying or the artists he was mentioning. He was hooked on this one song by Cat Stevens, he kept saying, "Cats in the cradle with the .. .. ..... We couldn't really hear what he said after a while, but he kept saying that over and over. He tried to get me to sing Billy Jean, but I didn't remember how it started or I would have humored him a little. Then he asked us if we heard the poet, but he said it really strangely and we couldn't really understand what he was saying until he mentioned rhythm and blues and rap. Then I figured out what he was talking about. He then tried to start a rhyme and wanted us to continue it, but it was such as silly rhyme and I could never think of anything that made sense or rhymed. Then he tried to rap... Anyway, He kept telling us to for quite a while and offered to get us something to eat several times, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have. He may actually have done it, but I don't see why he would have been hanging out with the rest of that group if he had actually had enough money to buy things. Anyway, we had to leave to go meet John, so we left and said good bye to him. I asked if he wanted the Chicken Sandwich I had and he said something like, I'm black aren't I? The words that I have somewhat remembered don't do him justice, because he actually was really nice and not too sarcastic, he was just trying to be funny.
After that whole homeless people encounter, we walked 6 blocks or so to the bus stop, and then met John. He got dropped of around the corner though while lots of them waited for the bus to pull around front, so when we were watching the bus for him, he showed up right there. Amy and he were glad to see each other, and I was glad to see him too, though I had never seen him before. We then walked back to the McDonalds, because he had just been on a bus for a long time and was really hungry. After that we walked back towards where his stop was and we met George there. We drove for an hour or so and them made a stop to grab some beverages and food.
We then made it out to their house by 11:15 and went inside and met Moira and Mary and Moira's boyfriend Steve. We were all sitting around the kitchen counter and there was some awkward silence and George said, "Does anyone want to have a knife fight?!" It was really funny anyway. They have a nice house, but everyone was pretty tired after we had gotten there, so we went to bed. I got to sleep on a cot, which was fine, but I got really cold in the middle of the night and had to steal another blanket. That was the end of yesterday, but I will leave today for another blog post.
After Amy's Spanish class, we went to the Library and did some homework. I read and read for my Sociology class, and she did some reading and work for Spanish. After we had all we could take of the homework, (we were getting quite excited for leaving DC on the break), we went and got a grab and go lunch and ate it in her room. It was the first time that we had had a Chicken Caesar wrap and it was pretty good. We usually have the "Hoya Wrap" which has chicken, lettuce, tomato, and some spicyish tangy sauce, but they were out of them, so we obviously got something else. After lunch, we studied in her room for a while and she got all packed and ready to go to Virginia. We did some more homework, but soon got bored with it and then just decided to leave Georgetown at 5:15.
We caught the GUTS bus (Georgetown University Transportation System) and it took us through some narrow streets to the Dupont Circle Metro Stop. On the drive, we squeezed closely between cars, but everyone was safe in the end, so all was well. We carried our 4 bags onto the Metro, which wasn't crowded, because it was rush hour and therefore the trains come quite often, and sat down for the short, 3 stop, ride to Gallery Place-Chinatown. From that stop, we made our way through the maze of escalators, it reminded me somewhat of those pictures with stairs going every which direction, and arrived on H and 7th streets. There was a huge Chinatown Archway there, which was quite elaborate and Chinese looking.
A more intense adventure awaits... To be continued... Tomorrow.
From there, we walked to the McDonalds, because Amy had been craving a Big Mac ever since I had eaten one that night. We arrived there and we felt like the minority for once, because Chinatown had a lot more black, Asian, and Hispanic people than the other parts of the Northwest. We were still technically in the NW as far as addresses went, but were were almost in the NE. (we were on 5th st and counts down going towards the center of town)
I ordered the food and Amy stayed at the table to watch the stuff, and she said some guy that said he was getting water and got lemonade instead, she didn't think he was too smart, because they tried to explain it to him, tried to sit down in my seat without asking her. He was in a fancy suit, but we weren't sure how he got it. After we got our food, we were eating, and this scruffy guy with frizzy hair and crazy intense blue/green eyes, looked at Amy as he was walking by and mumbled something, and she said, "Excuse me," and he gave her this weird look. Then he got some caramel syrup from the little dispenser thing and was drinking it from one of those little cups. He then walked by me and mumbled something and I asked what he had said, and he mentioned that he was related to me. I was pretty sure he wasn't, but he insisted a second time, but I then ignored him. I felt badly for the guy even though he really creeped me out, by talking in such a way that I could hardly understand him, and looking at me with those intense crazy eyes. I then went and got a chicken sandwich and a "McDouble." I was going to give him one, but I was pretty scared so I texted Amy which I should give him, because I wanted to give the other one to someone else. I gave him the double cheese burger, and he was very grateful.
After a little bit, some other lady that seemed a little better off sat down next to him and Amy thought that we should maybe move because there was a lack of seats that forced her to sit by him, but as it turned out they knew eachother. They didn't talk to eachother, but then this other lady came by and sat across from them and she had a backpack and a bag and did talk to the first lady. They were arguing and bickering over the dinner at a church that they didn't get that day as it would usually have been, because the church people said that they were instead going to have a Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. She had a bunch of newspaper clippings that I think were ads and coupons, but I couldn't tell. A little time later, this rather large lady walked in and she was looking unhappy, so Amy smiled at her, and she scowled back! She sat at the last remaining seat at the table of four.
A little later, this other black guy with a basketball cap on came in and stood by that group. Then a little later, he came over to us and introduced himself as Enzel, like Denzel without the D. He said we may have seen him on TV. He liked to joke around a lot as he later told us. He then asked to sit by me and I let him, so he could talk to us. It was quite the experience. It almost smelled as though he had alcohol on his breath, but it may just have been the lack of teeth brushing for a long time. He didn't have one of his rows of teeth, though now I forget which one it was, and I think that was one thing that made me think he hadn't brushed in a while. He was from New Jersey supposedly, and then he said it with the Jersey accent just to be funny. He asked if I balled after he noticed Amy was from Georgetown. He talked to us about basketball for a little bit. I said I didn't ball, and he said, oh yeah, cause your white... We laughed at that. Then he tried to get us to sing some songs, be we could barely understand what he was saying or the artists he was mentioning. He was hooked on this one song by Cat Stevens, he kept saying, "Cats in the cradle with the .. .. ..... We couldn't really hear what he said after a while, but he kept saying that over and over. He tried to get me to sing Billy Jean, but I didn't remember how it started or I would have humored him a little. Then he asked us if we heard the poet, but he said it really strangely and we couldn't really understand what he was saying until he mentioned rhythm and blues and rap. Then I figured out what he was talking about. He then tried to start a rhyme and wanted us to continue it, but it was such as silly rhyme and I could never think of anything that made sense or rhymed. Then he tried to rap... Anyway, He kept telling us to for quite a while and offered to get us something to eat several times, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have. He may actually have done it, but I don't see why he would have been hanging out with the rest of that group if he had actually had enough money to buy things. Anyway, we had to leave to go meet John, so we left and said good bye to him. I asked if he wanted the Chicken Sandwich I had and he said something like, I'm black aren't I? The words that I have somewhat remembered don't do him justice, because he actually was really nice and not too sarcastic, he was just trying to be funny.
After that whole homeless people encounter, we walked 6 blocks or so to the bus stop, and then met John. He got dropped of around the corner though while lots of them waited for the bus to pull around front, so when we were watching the bus for him, he showed up right there. Amy and he were glad to see each other, and I was glad to see him too, though I had never seen him before. We then walked back to the McDonalds, because he had just been on a bus for a long time and was really hungry. After that we walked back towards where his stop was and we met George there. We drove for an hour or so and them made a stop to grab some beverages and food.
We then made it out to their house by 11:15 and went inside and met Moira and Mary and Moira's boyfriend Steve. We were all sitting around the kitchen counter and there was some awkward silence and George said, "Does anyone want to have a knife fight?!" It was really funny anyway. They have a nice house, but everyone was pretty tired after we had gotten there, so we went to bed. I got to sleep on a cot, which was fine, but I got really cold in the middle of the night and had to steal another blanket. That was the end of yesterday, but I will leave today for another blog post.
Monday, November 22, 2010
A new Record!!!
Today, I set a record for the least time spent in my room when I wasn't with Amy nor was I in the class room.
So today, I slept in quite a while longer than usual, and then got going by about 9. I then looked up some things for my Understanding Music class group project. We are doing Hey Ladies by the Beastie Boys, so I listened to it and wrote a little analysis about it. I also looked up some information on the genre and the group as a whole. After this, I stayed in my room and asked some questions about our final project for Sociology. It is a picture essay, where we give some background information about the topic using our "sociological imagination" then have 8-10 pictures to support the points made in the essay.
After that, I went to the Math tutoring room, because I didn't understand how to do substitution integrating at first, but now I understand it better:) Then, I went to get a grab and go Lunch, which was really good:)I then tried to go to the Physics office hours, but he was in a meeting and then came out to tell me that and I felt silly, because I had read that email, but just misread it and thought that they started at 2:30 instead of the actual 3:30. After messing up there, I went to work on some physics homework with Jeff in the Library. Then... after that, I went to the office hours of Phil johnson.
I got some dinner, typed up the Music project piece, went to the exercise room, then got super tired. IT was one of the elliptical trainers and I went on it for quite a while... Burning 13 calories per minute. It felt really weird to go backwards, but it was good, because it exercised some different muscles. Then, after that I went and got some more food, because I need to get going on my meal plans, I think I still have like 40 left, so... I have to go to bed so I can wake up in time for breakfast. Goodnight!
I went over to the library to work with Jeff for a little bit, and then went to
So today, I slept in quite a while longer than usual, and then got going by about 9. I then looked up some things for my Understanding Music class group project. We are doing Hey Ladies by the Beastie Boys, so I listened to it and wrote a little analysis about it. I also looked up some information on the genre and the group as a whole. After this, I stayed in my room and asked some questions about our final project for Sociology. It is a picture essay, where we give some background information about the topic using our "sociological imagination" then have 8-10 pictures to support the points made in the essay.
After that, I went to the Math tutoring room, because I didn't understand how to do substitution integrating at first, but now I understand it better:) Then, I went to get a grab and go Lunch, which was really good:)I then tried to go to the Physics office hours, but he was in a meeting and then came out to tell me that and I felt silly, because I had read that email, but just misread it and thought that they started at 2:30 instead of the actual 3:30. After messing up there, I went to work on some physics homework with Jeff in the Library. Then... after that, I went to the office hours of Phil johnson.
I got some dinner, typed up the Music project piece, went to the exercise room, then got super tired. IT was one of the elliptical trainers and I went on it for quite a while... Burning 13 calories per minute. It felt really weird to go backwards, but it was good, because it exercised some different muscles. Then, after that I went and got some more food, because I need to get going on my meal plans, I think I still have like 40 left, so... I have to go to bed so I can wake up in time for breakfast. Goodnight!
I went over to the library to work with Jeff for a little bit, and then went to
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Good times and confusion
For those who have already read this, there is a little bit more right at the bottom.
Today was a fairly average day as it started, but then it got more interesting as it progressed.
I walked to Church and talked to Grandpa Sacry for a while. I met Amy on Wisconsin and we then walked up to church. The service seemed pretty long, but then afterward, I got recruited to sing in their choir... Thats what I get for trying to sing parts. It was fun to sing some more, but my throat isn't quite up to par yet as far as singing goes, so I got tired quickly especially singing tenor. After Church, we listened to Mary tell us how to get to Columbia Heights where the Target is (she is rather thrifty and knows all of the bus routes and transfer spots and everything). Amy had to buy some pants for her interview to be an RA, and I needed some shampoo. So, we went up there and went shopping for a bit. As we were leaving, a homeless guy tried to get me to buy his newspaper, but I didn't at first but then felt badly, since I had heard of the newspaper before and knew it was for a good cause. It is called Street Sense and is sold by the homeless people for money They can get a permit and then go and buy a bunch of papers and sell them around town. Anyway, we were going to go eat at iHop, but Amy checked it out and there was supposed to be a 45 minute wait, so we didn't go there we went to Panda Express, a fast food buffet type thing where you can choose 2 entrees and some type of rice or noodles. It was really good.
Anyway, we then rode the Metro back to Rosslyn and walked over to Georgetown. After we got back to her dorm room, we had what we thought was a mango, but as peeled it I found out it was actually a papaya. Amy had been given it because she helped some people get in to the dorms. They were the adults that live on another floor in New South. WE unpacked everything and I tried the Arch Support that I had gotten at Target. I hadn't looked as closely at is as I should have, so it turns out that it was actually for 5-10 foot size in womens. Silly me! After that, we did some homework and then played Racquetball in the Yates Field House. It was really fun to finally play racquetball again:) I had to pay 5 dollars to get in there since I was a visitor and didn't have a pass.
I then walked a little ways and then took the Circulator bus, a cheaper version of the Metro bus, over to Dupont Circle and then went back to American. I had been planning to get a Big Mac again, since I was too late for the dining room once again. I was pretty sure that I could go there, since it said it was open 24 hours. As I got there I noticed that it was actually only open 24 hours Friday and Saturday. IT was in the fine print, anyway, I got there at 11:15, 15 minutes too late. I then went to Subway instead and got a footlong turkey breast on flat bread, because I though it would be good. So I told them what I wanted, and then I said toasted, and it turns out their toaster was broken. Then, I found out they were completely out of lettuce too, so I had a cold sub without lettuce. I thought veggies would be better than not, so I got the only things that I liked... Onions, peppers, and tomatoes. I then got chipotle sauce. IT was an Ok sub, just not at all what I was expecting. Anyway, that was all there was to my day. GOodnight!
So, as I woke this morning, I still had lots of onion flavor in my mouth! I got ready for the day and even brushed my teeth 2 times, yet still it stays there. I don't think it is good to get onions on Subway sandwiches.
Today was a fairly average day as it started, but then it got more interesting as it progressed.
I walked to Church and talked to Grandpa Sacry for a while. I met Amy on Wisconsin and we then walked up to church. The service seemed pretty long, but then afterward, I got recruited to sing in their choir... Thats what I get for trying to sing parts. It was fun to sing some more, but my throat isn't quite up to par yet as far as singing goes, so I got tired quickly especially singing tenor. After Church, we listened to Mary tell us how to get to Columbia Heights where the Target is (she is rather thrifty and knows all of the bus routes and transfer spots and everything). Amy had to buy some pants for her interview to be an RA, and I needed some shampoo. So, we went up there and went shopping for a bit. As we were leaving, a homeless guy tried to get me to buy his newspaper, but I didn't at first but then felt badly, since I had heard of the newspaper before and knew it was for a good cause. It is called Street Sense and is sold by the homeless people for money They can get a permit and then go and buy a bunch of papers and sell them around town. Anyway, we were going to go eat at iHop, but Amy checked it out and there was supposed to be a 45 minute wait, so we didn't go there we went to Panda Express, a fast food buffet type thing where you can choose 2 entrees and some type of rice or noodles. It was really good.
Anyway, we then rode the Metro back to Rosslyn and walked over to Georgetown. After we got back to her dorm room, we had what we thought was a mango, but as peeled it I found out it was actually a papaya. Amy had been given it because she helped some people get in to the dorms. They were the adults that live on another floor in New South. WE unpacked everything and I tried the Arch Support that I had gotten at Target. I hadn't looked as closely at is as I should have, so it turns out that it was actually for 5-10 foot size in womens. Silly me! After that, we did some homework and then played Racquetball in the Yates Field House. It was really fun to finally play racquetball again:) I had to pay 5 dollars to get in there since I was a visitor and didn't have a pass.
I then walked a little ways and then took the Circulator bus, a cheaper version of the Metro bus, over to Dupont Circle and then went back to American. I had been planning to get a Big Mac again, since I was too late for the dining room once again. I was pretty sure that I could go there, since it said it was open 24 hours. As I got there I noticed that it was actually only open 24 hours Friday and Saturday. IT was in the fine print, anyway, I got there at 11:15, 15 minutes too late. I then went to Subway instead and got a footlong turkey breast on flat bread, because I though it would be good. So I told them what I wanted, and then I said toasted, and it turns out their toaster was broken. Then, I found out they were completely out of lettuce too, so I had a cold sub without lettuce. I thought veggies would be better than not, so I got the only things that I liked... Onions, peppers, and tomatoes. I then got chipotle sauce. IT was an Ok sub, just not at all what I was expecting. Anyway, that was all there was to my day. GOodnight!
So, as I woke this morning, I still had lots of onion flavor in my mouth! I got ready for the day and even brushed my teeth 2 times, yet still it stays there. I don't think it is good to get onions on Subway sandwiches.
Some extra information
Yes, as I have now been told by Carla, and my Grandma, it was indeed Ed and Charlene Gleazer. He was the seventh president of Graceland and he was also apparently influential in establishing the Community College system.
Amy's aunt called while we were studying yesterday, and said that her husband would be coming in to DC to pick up their son, John, from a bus from New York, where he goes to college. We then canceled our train tickets and are now going to ride with them to Charlottesville on Wednesday evening. I don't get to ride on a train, once again, but it saves a bit of money, so I guess my train trip will have to wait.
There were originally 2 things that I was going to write this morning, but I have forgotten the other since last night, so I guess I will have write again some other time.
Amy's aunt called while we were studying yesterday, and said that her husband would be coming in to DC to pick up their son, John, from a bus from New York, where he goes to college. We then canceled our train tickets and are now going to ride with them to Charlottesville on Wednesday evening. I don't get to ride on a train, once again, but it saves a bit of money, so I guess my train trip will have to wait.
There were originally 2 things that I was going to write this morning, but I have forgotten the other since last night, so I guess I will have write again some other time.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Dinner and some friends
The week went by without many hassles and before I knew it, I had finished a lit of homework, seen Amy on Wednesday, she came up here on Monday too, and she was again here at American on Friday. We did a little homework and then got picked up by Warren. Emma, the other girl from American, went to dinner with us also. When we got there, she made me stay in the entry way for a while, because she had a surprise or something. I then was allowed to go into living room and there was Greg Long. That was a bit of a surprise, but when she asked me if I knew him, was a little unsure, because I didn't remember him exactly. I knew we were related, but I wasn't sure how. Any way he and his fiance, Amanda were there along with this other pretty old couple named Ed and Charlene. They were in their 90s, but seemed pretty young for being that old, I mean fairly with it, besides for their lack of hearing, and a little memory loss, which may have been only a result of not having heard the information the first time. They were really nice and funny:) We each grabbed numbers at the beginning. Everyone sat in the living room for a while to talk before dinner started. Amy helped Lillian, the lady of the house, with some of the setup.
I talked with Greg for a while. It was good to talk to him, even though I probably hadn't really talked to him before. I remembered him from the reunion in Montana, and he said he remembered when we stopped at the one in Lamoni. I talked to him a little about my classes and I heard what he does. He apparently works for Weatherbug, this online weather service. He is an IT guy and she also works there as a meteorologist to check the data coming in for accuracy. I told him that i might go to Alaska this summer to work at the cannery and he said that it was something very memorable and that I should if I got the chance. He said that by the end of the summer he could hardly open his hand to put on the gloves, because his hand was getting used to holding the knife for 15 hours a day. He also told me about this time when he was sea kayaking and he found a sea lion and was taking some pictures of it. He got a little too close and it roared at him and he said he got really scared. I could Imagine getting really scared, because they are pretty big and fast in the water. Anyway, Ed and Charlene told everyone about this campground where they stay during the winters.
After Angie and Anil, her significant other, showed up, we had dinner. It was somewhat like an enchilada, except there was a cream sauce on it and olives on top.. :S There was also some good salads. We sat at our corresponding numbered places, which were distributed randomly around. There we talked more and our table had a good Apple versus Microsoft conversation. Emma's power input area had some problem on the new type Macbook and it would have been $1300 to replace it had she not had the protection still on it. We also heard about the three things need in life according to the 94 year old Ed. They were 1) Something to do. 2) Someone to love. and 3) Something to look forward to. I thought they were pretty wise yet simple words. He is working on this paper about aging and says he will put it in a sermon some day soonish to give at Church. We had some good dessert and talked about more random things.
They also had a ping pong table downstairs and we played. I'm not that bad, but they were a lot better than me. Warren and Lillian play everyday and are really good. Anil was also really good and could compete with them too. I played Amy and Angie and beat them, but lost to Anil. There was some crazy spin there. The balls were possibly a little harder than the ones at our house, like had a thicker plastic layer, and they had really nice grippy paddles. It was a really fun night:)
After that, Angie and Anil brought us back to American and we worked on homework a little more before Amy went home. There was a bit of confusion, because originally we were going to get to the metro early enough so Amy could catch the shuttle from Dupont back to Georgetown. She didn't really want to go to Rosslyn, because it takes a long time and you still have to walk a mile or so, so it is faster and more efficient to just walk. So we were at the Metro station at Tenleytown and the train was going to be too late, so Amy came back out, and we just missed the Shuttle back to American, so we walked all the way down Wisconsin to 37th instead of going back to American first to follow the usual path down Massachusetts and then Wisconsin.
So today, I walked to Georgetown and we worked in the Library all morning after I ate a delicious banana and crunchy peanut butter sandwich that Amy made for me, since my dining room doesn't open until 11 on the weekends. Then we got a sandwich at the grocery store and also some cookies:) They are really good cookies! A little before that we went to turn in one of Amy's papers and from that building, New North, we could watch the football game from the end of the hall way that had a balcony on it. It was pretty cool and there was a much better view there than there would have been in the stands, even though it was a little farther away.
There was another bad timing event as I came home. The shuttle from Georgetown we just missed (saw it driving away) then, I missed the one at Tenleytown, so I was waited a little, then started walking, but it would have been too long. Then, I waited for the shuttle at another stop along the way and arrived back at American too late to get dinner. I was also going to go to the gym to get some exercise, and by the time I checked at 8:40, I realized it actually closed at 8:30 on the weekends. I did some pushups in my room and read some more, then went to McDonalds and got the best Big Mac I have ever tasted! The buns were so soft and it was so perfectly made and I was hungry, which also helped, but that is somewhat beside the point. I also got a pumpkin shake which was very delicious, like pumpkin ice cream that I have had before, except it was a little sweeter... It was really good anyway.
I went back to my room, worked on this, and went to bed.
I talked with Greg for a while. It was good to talk to him, even though I probably hadn't really talked to him before. I remembered him from the reunion in Montana, and he said he remembered when we stopped at the one in Lamoni. I talked to him a little about my classes and I heard what he does. He apparently works for Weatherbug, this online weather service. He is an IT guy and she also works there as a meteorologist to check the data coming in for accuracy. I told him that i might go to Alaska this summer to work at the cannery and he said that it was something very memorable and that I should if I got the chance. He said that by the end of the summer he could hardly open his hand to put on the gloves, because his hand was getting used to holding the knife for 15 hours a day. He also told me about this time when he was sea kayaking and he found a sea lion and was taking some pictures of it. He got a little too close and it roared at him and he said he got really scared. I could Imagine getting really scared, because they are pretty big and fast in the water. Anyway, Ed and Charlene told everyone about this campground where they stay during the winters.
After Angie and Anil, her significant other, showed up, we had dinner. It was somewhat like an enchilada, except there was a cream sauce on it and olives on top.. :S There was also some good salads. We sat at our corresponding numbered places, which were distributed randomly around. There we talked more and our table had a good Apple versus Microsoft conversation. Emma's power input area had some problem on the new type Macbook and it would have been $1300 to replace it had she not had the protection still on it. We also heard about the three things need in life according to the 94 year old Ed. They were 1) Something to do. 2) Someone to love. and 3) Something to look forward to. I thought they were pretty wise yet simple words. He is working on this paper about aging and says he will put it in a sermon some day soonish to give at Church. We had some good dessert and talked about more random things.
They also had a ping pong table downstairs and we played. I'm not that bad, but they were a lot better than me. Warren and Lillian play everyday and are really good. Anil was also really good and could compete with them too. I played Amy and Angie and beat them, but lost to Anil. There was some crazy spin there. The balls were possibly a little harder than the ones at our house, like had a thicker plastic layer, and they had really nice grippy paddles. It was a really fun night:)
After that, Angie and Anil brought us back to American and we worked on homework a little more before Amy went home. There was a bit of confusion, because originally we were going to get to the metro early enough so Amy could catch the shuttle from Dupont back to Georgetown. She didn't really want to go to Rosslyn, because it takes a long time and you still have to walk a mile or so, so it is faster and more efficient to just walk. So we were at the Metro station at Tenleytown and the train was going to be too late, so Amy came back out, and we just missed the Shuttle back to American, so we walked all the way down Wisconsin to 37th instead of going back to American first to follow the usual path down Massachusetts and then Wisconsin.
So today, I walked to Georgetown and we worked in the Library all morning after I ate a delicious banana and crunchy peanut butter sandwich that Amy made for me, since my dining room doesn't open until 11 on the weekends. Then we got a sandwich at the grocery store and also some cookies:) They are really good cookies! A little before that we went to turn in one of Amy's papers and from that building, New North, we could watch the football game from the end of the hall way that had a balcony on it. It was pretty cool and there was a much better view there than there would have been in the stands, even though it was a little farther away.
There was another bad timing event as I came home. The shuttle from Georgetown we just missed (saw it driving away) then, I missed the one at Tenleytown, so I was waited a little, then started walking, but it would have been too long. Then, I waited for the shuttle at another stop along the way and arrived back at American too late to get dinner. I was also going to go to the gym to get some exercise, and by the time I checked at 8:40, I realized it actually closed at 8:30 on the weekends. I did some pushups in my room and read some more, then went to McDonalds and got the best Big Mac I have ever tasted! The buns were so soft and it was so perfectly made and I was hungry, which also helped, but that is somewhat beside the point. I also got a pumpkin shake which was very delicious, like pumpkin ice cream that I have had before, except it was a little sweeter... It was really good anyway.
I went back to my room, worked on this, and went to bed.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Another time lapse
So nearly 10 days has passed since last I wrote... What to say??
Last week, I didn't go to Georgetown at all until Friday. Amy had been working on the set for a one acts festival with the Mask and Bauble Drama department, so she practiced a lot in the evenings all week. I did homework like crazy and then did some more homework. My main assignments were my Discussion paper for Global Majority and my Poverty Project for Sociology. I spent a lot of time looking up information for the Poverty project and finally put together an essay and cited a bunch of sources all day Thursday. I also did my lab write-up.
There was a very interesting class in Sociology on Thursday. The rainbow speakers board came in and talked to us. This gay kid told us his story and then we could ask questions and such. There was one thing that I found quite interesting and it was the continuum of different aspects of self. The first is sex and the far sides of the spectrum are male and female. In the middle is intersex which is like if their body parts weren't correctly developed at birth. The next aspect is gender identity which ranges from man to woman to the intermediate "gender fluid" whatever that is supposed to mean. This is how one views themselves. Gender expression is the next category which ranges from masculine to feminine to androgynous. This is how you express yourselves and how you are perceived by others. Then there is sexual orientation from being attracted to women to attracted to men, or both (pansexual/bisexual). There are so many terms. Anyway, I though it was interesting the differences between sex and gender.
Friday was a big day full of classes and after them, I went down to see Amy for the first time in the week! We studied a while and then went to the One Acts Festival. First, they did a play that was written by a Junior from Georgetown. It was really confusing, but Amy said she was starting to get it after the 6th or so time sitting behind the scenes and listening to it. The next part was pretty funny and good. I went to 3 nights of the second part (since it was free) and heard a variety of shows. They had dramatic readings which were pretty boring, but they also had some good music. They had "The Chimes" an acapella group, 1000000 Shetland ponies (a funny guy that was in the improv group with his manikin thing. He played his guitar to a narrative and sang some songs he wrote too, in the context of the story. He was one of my favorites. There was also a broadway type group that sang some funny songs and an improv group. There was also this lady that performed a dramatic monologue and another annoying lady that sang songs that didn't make sense. She had a decent voice and played the guitar. She seemed to like to just randomly throw the F-word into each of her songs at least once. She would be repeating a normal verse and would just put it in there for kicks... People around here swear so much! Its quite annoying and very rarely makes sense in the context. I don't like swearing in general and see it as quite futile, but I hate i even more when it is completely unwarranted.
Anyway, Amy and I bought some Chinese food one night after the show and ate it... We got 2 quarts, one of fried rice and another of broccoli beef. They were both really good, but it was so much food! It was a wonderful dinner overall:)
We went to church on Sunday and Bill Pennington spoke. He was from somewhere else, besides here. The songs this Sunday were pretty good though. After church, we finished making the arrangements to go to Lillian Wallace's house this Friday for dinner. They have a pingpong table and it should be pretty good:) After that, we went down to georgetown and ate the left over Chinese food. The white rice didn't last so well... IT was super dry! We then worked on homework again... For the millionth time + or - 999000.
Today, Amy walked up here after her Calculus class and we did something else new... Homework!:( Don't worry, I'm getting used to it:P So anyway, we ate food twice, so I have only about 50 meals left on my plan, so I really have to get going more quickly on them, since I won't even be here at all over Thanksgiving:) Hooray! I had a bit of a moment as I was walking Amy part way home. I had to go the bathroom really badly, and there aren't just bathrooms sitting at each corner, so I walked probably .3 miles feeling like I was going to explode. It was not fun! Amy and I tried to go to the gas station that we always pass on the corner of 37th and Wisconsin, but it was super small and "had no bathroom," though we could clearly see one, I guess it wasn't for the public. Then, we finally found a restaurant that I wouldn't feel too badly going into, so I stopped at Z-burger. I then felt a little badly for using their bathroom, so I bought the cheapest thing on their menu, even though I was pretty full from having just eaten. I wanted to be productive though, so I sat in there and read my Physics Textbook. Amy had to get back to georgetown a little earlier today than usual, because she had her first play practice for The Christmas Carol.
Ok, its getting really late, and I haven't been getting quite enough sleep lately, so I think I'm going to go to bed. Good Bye all!
Last week, I didn't go to Georgetown at all until Friday. Amy had been working on the set for a one acts festival with the Mask and Bauble Drama department, so she practiced a lot in the evenings all week. I did homework like crazy and then did some more homework. My main assignments were my Discussion paper for Global Majority and my Poverty Project for Sociology. I spent a lot of time looking up information for the Poverty project and finally put together an essay and cited a bunch of sources all day Thursday. I also did my lab write-up.
There was a very interesting class in Sociology on Thursday. The rainbow speakers board came in and talked to us. This gay kid told us his story and then we could ask questions and such. There was one thing that I found quite interesting and it was the continuum of different aspects of self. The first is sex and the far sides of the spectrum are male and female. In the middle is intersex which is like if their body parts weren't correctly developed at birth. The next aspect is gender identity which ranges from man to woman to the intermediate "gender fluid" whatever that is supposed to mean. This is how one views themselves. Gender expression is the next category which ranges from masculine to feminine to androgynous. This is how you express yourselves and how you are perceived by others. Then there is sexual orientation from being attracted to women to attracted to men, or both (pansexual/bisexual). There are so many terms. Anyway, I though it was interesting the differences between sex and gender.
Friday was a big day full of classes and after them, I went down to see Amy for the first time in the week! We studied a while and then went to the One Acts Festival. First, they did a play that was written by a Junior from Georgetown. It was really confusing, but Amy said she was starting to get it after the 6th or so time sitting behind the scenes and listening to it. The next part was pretty funny and good. I went to 3 nights of the second part (since it was free) and heard a variety of shows. They had dramatic readings which were pretty boring, but they also had some good music. They had "The Chimes" an acapella group, 1000000 Shetland ponies (a funny guy that was in the improv group with his manikin thing. He played his guitar to a narrative and sang some songs he wrote too, in the context of the story. He was one of my favorites. There was also a broadway type group that sang some funny songs and an improv group. There was also this lady that performed a dramatic monologue and another annoying lady that sang songs that didn't make sense. She had a decent voice and played the guitar. She seemed to like to just randomly throw the F-word into each of her songs at least once. She would be repeating a normal verse and would just put it in there for kicks... People around here swear so much! Its quite annoying and very rarely makes sense in the context. I don't like swearing in general and see it as quite futile, but I hate i even more when it is completely unwarranted.
Anyway, Amy and I bought some Chinese food one night after the show and ate it... We got 2 quarts, one of fried rice and another of broccoli beef. They were both really good, but it was so much food! It was a wonderful dinner overall:)
We went to church on Sunday and Bill Pennington spoke. He was from somewhere else, besides here. The songs this Sunday were pretty good though. After church, we finished making the arrangements to go to Lillian Wallace's house this Friday for dinner. They have a pingpong table and it should be pretty good:) After that, we went down to georgetown and ate the left over Chinese food. The white rice didn't last so well... IT was super dry! We then worked on homework again... For the millionth time + or - 999000.
Today, Amy walked up here after her Calculus class and we did something else new... Homework!:( Don't worry, I'm getting used to it:P So anyway, we ate food twice, so I have only about 50 meals left on my plan, so I really have to get going more quickly on them, since I won't even be here at all over Thanksgiving:) Hooray! I had a bit of a moment as I was walking Amy part way home. I had to go the bathroom really badly, and there aren't just bathrooms sitting at each corner, so I walked probably .3 miles feeling like I was going to explode. It was not fun! Amy and I tried to go to the gas station that we always pass on the corner of 37th and Wisconsin, but it was super small and "had no bathroom," though we could clearly see one, I guess it wasn't for the public. Then, we finally found a restaurant that I wouldn't feel too badly going into, so I stopped at Z-burger. I then felt a little badly for using their bathroom, so I bought the cheapest thing on their menu, even though I was pretty full from having just eaten. I wanted to be productive though, so I sat in there and read my Physics Textbook. Amy had to get back to georgetown a little earlier today than usual, because she had her first play practice for The Christmas Carol.
Ok, its getting really late, and I haven't been getting quite enough sleep lately, so I think I'm going to go to bed. Good Bye all!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Where has the time gone?
This week has blurred by!
Wednesday, I went to Georgetown, studied and they went to Chi Alpha. Amy and I did homework for quite a while, and then I walked home in the rain, but I had the tarp from a broken umbrella, so I stayed mostly dry.
Thursday and Friday were spent doing homework and studying for 2 tests that I was to have on Friday. I took the tests and then met Amy on Tunlaw as she was walking up here. We worked on homework and had some dinner, and then I tried to help her with Calculus. We walked towards Georgetown and I taught her the chain rule, which was very confusing at first, because we didn't even have any paper to use, so it was just by word of mouth. I ran home, well all the way up Wisconsin Ave. and then started running up Massachusetts, but I was a little tired and didn't have quite the right clothing, so I stopped. Oh yeah, and... I borrowed Amy's sweater, because I had had my wool coat, but I didn't want to sweat in it, because it isn't very washable. I also wanted to get home quicker than walking, so I used her sweater and left my coat with her. I must have looked quite funny, because I had a purple and black sweater that was quite tight on me and was running. I called Darcy when I was on Massachusetts Ave, and heard her tell about her birthday party.
On Saturday, I woke up fairly early and walked down to Georgetown. I had lots of Homework, and Amy and I worked and worked on homework until 1 when she had to go to do a play teching. She was behind the stage and made sure people came out when it was their part. After that, we were really hungry, so we went over to Vital Vittles and got some food. It is the campus grocery store and has some decent deals. They have just gotten a milkshake maker thingy called F'real.
http://www.freal.com/
There is a freezer that has a bunch of different cups of frozen things. You take out a cup, take off the lid, and put it in the machine. Then you select the desired thickness of your drink. There is a little cup holder thing, and it then raises the platform in to the machine and mixes the previously frozen cup of sugary creamy goodness! They have smoothies and milkshakes and we got a Reece's Peanut butter cup milkshake. They are really good and we got one with the sandwich that we bought. I mentioned that we were really hungry did I not?? Anyway, we got a turkey Manhattan which has cheddar cheese, turkey, bacon, spinach, and some dressing stuff. It is really good. Then, I saw another sandwich that said -1.50 on it. I just thought that the - was maybe just like a bullet point or something to get your attention, so I talked Amy into getting it. There was also a beef one, but it was less food, so we decided that the Italian one with Ham and Salami would be better. We were wrong! It had some pickles and onions and pepper salsa like thing on the bottom, and salami, which I also don't like. What made it even worse was that it actually cost 4.50 and was merely 1.50 off the original price since it was a day old. To sum it up, it was gross.
After that not so good end to our lunch, we went to the business building and studied for several more hours before the movie. It was Inception and it was really good once again, and... we missed the beginning once again. We saw a little more of it than last time, but it was still kinda right in the middle of the action. After that, we walked to the bus stop and I waited for the bus to come.
The bus came at about 10:10 and then waited there for a while. Then, we took off. It was a very small bus, smaller than the senior citizen bus in Whitehall, and it had 2 seats on the left of the aisle and 1 on the right. The driver was pretty, but since the bus left from a different place than normal, he drove down K street or one near there. He was driving 60 mph on the 35 mph road and it was also much unlike a bus, because it had a bit of pick-up! It could get going and slow down pretty quickly. I then made it to the Metro stop in a much quicker time than normal, and walked down the escalator. As I arrived on the platform, a Metro train was coming. I saw the name disappear from the list and I knew that it had come, so I ran across the platform, down the escalator, and onto the train right before it left. To make a long story short, I made it home in only 45 minutes taking the Metro,, which is a new record.
I have to get working on my research paper more, but I hope you have enjoyed this small update.
Goodnight.
Wednesday, I went to Georgetown, studied and they went to Chi Alpha. Amy and I did homework for quite a while, and then I walked home in the rain, but I had the tarp from a broken umbrella, so I stayed mostly dry.
Thursday and Friday were spent doing homework and studying for 2 tests that I was to have on Friday. I took the tests and then met Amy on Tunlaw as she was walking up here. We worked on homework and had some dinner, and then I tried to help her with Calculus. We walked towards Georgetown and I taught her the chain rule, which was very confusing at first, because we didn't even have any paper to use, so it was just by word of mouth. I ran home, well all the way up Wisconsin Ave. and then started running up Massachusetts, but I was a little tired and didn't have quite the right clothing, so I stopped. Oh yeah, and... I borrowed Amy's sweater, because I had had my wool coat, but I didn't want to sweat in it, because it isn't very washable. I also wanted to get home quicker than walking, so I used her sweater and left my coat with her. I must have looked quite funny, because I had a purple and black sweater that was quite tight on me and was running. I called Darcy when I was on Massachusetts Ave, and heard her tell about her birthday party.
On Saturday, I woke up fairly early and walked down to Georgetown. I had lots of Homework, and Amy and I worked and worked on homework until 1 when she had to go to do a play teching. She was behind the stage and made sure people came out when it was their part. After that, we were really hungry, so we went over to Vital Vittles and got some food. It is the campus grocery store and has some decent deals. They have just gotten a milkshake maker thingy called F'real.
http://www.freal.com/
There is a freezer that has a bunch of different cups of frozen things. You take out a cup, take off the lid, and put it in the machine. Then you select the desired thickness of your drink. There is a little cup holder thing, and it then raises the platform in to the machine and mixes the previously frozen cup of sugary creamy goodness! They have smoothies and milkshakes and we got a Reece's Peanut butter cup milkshake. They are really good and we got one with the sandwich that we bought. I mentioned that we were really hungry did I not?? Anyway, we got a turkey Manhattan which has cheddar cheese, turkey, bacon, spinach, and some dressing stuff. It is really good. Then, I saw another sandwich that said -1.50 on it. I just thought that the - was maybe just like a bullet point or something to get your attention, so I talked Amy into getting it. There was also a beef one, but it was less food, so we decided that the Italian one with Ham and Salami would be better. We were wrong! It had some pickles and onions and pepper salsa like thing on the bottom, and salami, which I also don't like. What made it even worse was that it actually cost 4.50 and was merely 1.50 off the original price since it was a day old. To sum it up, it was gross.
After that not so good end to our lunch, we went to the business building and studied for several more hours before the movie. It was Inception and it was really good once again, and... we missed the beginning once again. We saw a little more of it than last time, but it was still kinda right in the middle of the action. After that, we walked to the bus stop and I waited for the bus to come.
The bus came at about 10:10 and then waited there for a while. Then, we took off. It was a very small bus, smaller than the senior citizen bus in Whitehall, and it had 2 seats on the left of the aisle and 1 on the right. The driver was pretty, but since the bus left from a different place than normal, he drove down K street or one near there. He was driving 60 mph on the 35 mph road and it was also much unlike a bus, because it had a bit of pick-up! It could get going and slow down pretty quickly. I then made it to the Metro stop in a much quicker time than normal, and walked down the escalator. As I arrived on the platform, a Metro train was coming. I saw the name disappear from the list and I knew that it had come, so I ran across the platform, down the escalator, and onto the train right before it left. To make a long story short, I made it home in only 45 minutes taking the Metro,, which is a new record.
I have to get working on my research paper more, but I hope you have enjoyed this small update.
Goodnight.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Halloween:)
Sunday was an average Sunday for the most part. I walked to church and met Amy there, then we went to Georgetown to do some studying until the Halloween party at 6:30. We went back to her room and got ready. I was a the world's poorest tango dancer. This was by my reasoning that I cannot dance well, so I have never made any money tango dancing, hence poorest. I had a red, reflective at some angles, shirt, my black dress pants and shoes. I slicked my hair back and had a feather on my shirt. Amy made me a black mustache and I looked a little like Hitler with it on. Anyway, She was a leprechaun and had a green under shirt and a green jacket with the tails in the back and also a large green hat.
We went to the Chi Alpha Halloween party that was held in Jon, the leader's room. (He lives on campus on one of the floors in another building) There we ate some candy and played a trivia game, but Amy and I lost, though I was a much bigger loser than she was. We also bobbed for apples and had a costume contest. Someone dressed up as Facebook and had a large posterboard made to look like it. Then they had a cord around the top so you could wear it. We bobbed for apples in a tub that was shaped like a duck. It was his cute little daughters pool. She is adorable! I haven't seen too many small children around here, like younger than 18, so it was kinda unique.
After that, we went and watched The Exorcist... It was pretty scary, mostly because it had several needle scenes in it. It is somewhat of a tradition to watch it at Georgetown on Halloween, because it takes place at Georgetown and there are several scenes on campus and just down the street from there. I recognized where I walked, which was a little scary, but oh well... The campus was a lot different though, because it was filmed quite a while ago. I went home after the movie and went to bed.
On monday, I got my I'm feeling lazy, getting fat, and eating too much downs, so I did some pushups and situps and then looked up a workout to help burn fat. It was super hard. Today, it hurt to walk in any way, up stairs, down ramps, or even on flat surfaces. I also did quite a bit of homework.
Today, I woke up and went to take a shower and noticed a sign on the door. It said, "Remember men: Its no-shave November." It had a sketched picture of an old man with a beard. I thought that I would like to do that, even though I don't have much to grow out. I'm going to shave it before we go to Amy's family for thanksgiving, because its sure to look scraggly and horrible!
Later today, I worked on homework for a long time, and then there was a fire-drill. In the cold, so I dressed up and went to the library to study. I think that if there really was a fire, I might have had to jump out my window, because I was really slow at gathering everything. Anyway, I studied there for a while and then went back to my room a little later.
That's all that has happened recently. And I got an 87 on my Sociology paper if I forgot to mention that before. Also, a 20/20 on the Understanding Music one. 3 tests on Friday... Wahoo!
Goodnight!
We went to the Chi Alpha Halloween party that was held in Jon, the leader's room. (He lives on campus on one of the floors in another building) There we ate some candy and played a trivia game, but Amy and I lost, though I was a much bigger loser than she was. We also bobbed for apples and had a costume contest. Someone dressed up as Facebook and had a large posterboard made to look like it. Then they had a cord around the top so you could wear it. We bobbed for apples in a tub that was shaped like a duck. It was his cute little daughters pool. She is adorable! I haven't seen too many small children around here, like younger than 18, so it was kinda unique.
After that, we went and watched The Exorcist... It was pretty scary, mostly because it had several needle scenes in it. It is somewhat of a tradition to watch it at Georgetown on Halloween, because it takes place at Georgetown and there are several scenes on campus and just down the street from there. I recognized where I walked, which was a little scary, but oh well... The campus was a lot different though, because it was filmed quite a while ago. I went home after the movie and went to bed.
On monday, I got my I'm feeling lazy, getting fat, and eating too much downs, so I did some pushups and situps and then looked up a workout to help burn fat. It was super hard. Today, it hurt to walk in any way, up stairs, down ramps, or even on flat surfaces. I also did quite a bit of homework.
Today, I woke up and went to take a shower and noticed a sign on the door. It said, "Remember men: Its no-shave November." It had a sketched picture of an old man with a beard. I thought that I would like to do that, even though I don't have much to grow out. I'm going to shave it before we go to Amy's family for thanksgiving, because its sure to look scraggly and horrible!
Later today, I worked on homework for a long time, and then there was a fire-drill. In the cold, so I dressed up and went to the library to study. I think that if there really was a fire, I might have had to jump out my window, because I was really slow at gathering everything. Anyway, I studied there for a while and then went back to my room a little later.
That's all that has happened recently. And I got an 87 on my Sociology paper if I forgot to mention that before. Also, a 20/20 on the Understanding Music one. 3 tests on Friday... Wahoo!
Goodnight!
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