Let it Snow!

The weather outside is frightful but my dorm room is so delightful, and since there's to class to go to, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

That's right kids, yesterday was the 3rd time in history classes at Transy had ever been canceled and today was the fourth! Being from "the north" (according to my friends at lunch today since Indy's north of the Mason-Dixon Line) I'm not to terrible impressed with the snow, but the ice is crazy! The trees in the Rosenthal Complex are so heavy with snow that the pathway is blocked and most of the highest branches are touching the ground. Serveral of the big trees around campus have lost big limbs and last night it seemed the whole of the Transylvania Campus had been turned into a ice-rink, that is with the excpetion of Fourth St. which becomes a river with any kind of precipitation. It's very pretty to look at but I don't envy the members of the physical plant trying to keep campus running. The electricty's out in the boys' dorms - Clay and Davis, and the new fancy Thompson Hall and from what I hear there's a large crowd gathering in Forrer's Back Lobby on their laptops staying warm in the heat.

Also, I've started my work study working the William T. Young Campus Center it's nothing too exciting but it's a job and it pays and I need the money for my trip in May so, work I shall. This week is also "Cabaret" a review show the Choir puts on and I've started rehearsal for Kimberly Akimbo. Since the campus has been shut down today and yesterday it's not quite as crazy busy as I was fearing it may, but Monday night was. I had rehearsal for Cabaret from 7-9, auditions for "School House Rock Live" from 8-10, Kimberly Akimbo rehearsal from 8:30-10 and a campus center scheduling meeting from 9-9:30. Yeah, I didn't get to stay at anything for as much time as I was supposed to but, sometimes that's how I gotta roll. C'est le vie. :)

Until next time!

Mmm, give me some spring please...

So, I'm not all that happy with my body at the moment. Starting Saturday afternoon I started having these really sharp pains in my lower abdomen, and when I say really sharp I mean: "OW OW OW OW OWEEEEEEEE, KILL ME NOW!" pain. It continued like this for a couple of hours then it got better, then late that night the pains came back, then again the next morning and continued on and on throughout the morning and into the afternoon, so my boyfriend and I try to go to a urgent care, but they were CLOSED! Needless to say, sitting in my boyfriend's tiny car in the cold, I wasn't very happy. So we decided, after some parental counseling, to go to the hospital. After we got there, the doctors did a bunch of tests and we were there for 5 hours to find that they weren't sure what was wrong and sent me home with some nausea meds. :( I continued to be sick until Wednesday, I finally got my ability to hold down food and today I made it out of bed for some normal activities. So it's better, but the moral of this in my here admissions blog is that my Transy friends were there for me. Whether they were texting me to see what I was doing and found out I was sitting in the hospital or stopping by once they heard that I was under the weather, or offering soup or advice, my Transy friends were there for me.

Proof! Legit Hospital Bracelet.
(Blurred so yall can't steal mah identities)

Also, as I was sitting in class this afternoon, a little loopy from my nausea medicine I gazed out the window and scratched at my seasonally dry skin and dreamt of my warm spring and early fall days, my favorite days at Transy. On warm, sun-drenched days students stream out of their dorms or the library to soak in the rays of light to help them in their photosynthesis and get some energy in a healthier way than an energy drink from the eighty or a cup of (illegal) coffee. On these days you can find students sprawled on any of the lawns on the academic side of campus under the shade giving trees, but my favorite spot on these days is Back Circle, the circle behind Forrer formed by the drive past Thomson, Davis and Clay Halls. Back circle is a refuge for the over studied, for the volleyball lover, for the people watchers, for the sun-bather, the barbecue-ing fraternity or the cornhole-ing student group.

I could, and have, spent the majority of days laying on a blanket, doing (or at least pretending to) do my homework. I've spent warm nights on the benches laughing with my friends, and I made the majority of my friendships in our dear back circle. Last year, shortly after returning from Winter Break, it was unusually warm and pretty rainy and a pick up game of mud football broke out, that game of mud football is among one of my most fond memories of Transy. Unless you were unaware, it''s not all about the things you learn in lectures or labs, but the things you experience in the time you spend at college, that makes the trip worth while. I'd like to say, so far, my trip has taken many unexpected, yet enjoyed detours; I wouldn't have it any other way.

Post-Mud Football in Forrer
With my Girls, Veronica and Meg.

Backstreet's Back Alright!

Hello Blogging World! Long time no see!

I know that I didn't give you all a wrap up of last semester, but everything ended up pretty well; we'll just say, no C's for me! Break was nice but it's hard to be far away from all of my friends here. I spent the first week at home by myself most days because my sisters were still at school and my parents were working. The second week was the week of Christmas so I got to spend more time with my sisters at least, my parents still had to work a lot of the week. Christmas itself was nice and relaxing, it's always nice to see people open the gifts you got them, there wasn't anything big for any of us but we all got Guitar Hero World Tour to share, but being together as a family is always the best part. The next week my boyfriend, Townsend, came up to Indianapolis to spend New Years with me; it was nice to have a little bit of Transy in Indy with me.

My Family on Christmas Eve

Over break, my parents and I decided that I would leave the car I was using, a Volkswagen Beetle, at home so my mom could use it to drive to and from work because it's a lot more fuel efficient than her mini-van. I figured that I didn't really need a car when all of my friends, and boyfriend, have them so I don't idly drive around wasting gas and I usually have a ride everywhere I need to go.

But we're back now, and we've been back for two weeks so it's been enough time for me to get back into the swing of classes. I'm really enjoying most of my classes, even Psychology which I'm taking for a GE credit, and my Education class which is an interesting insight into the whole education process. Spanish conversation is easy but a really good review of vocabulary and so forth and Computer Organization is different from any of the other CS classes I've taken so far.

Then on Wednesday I decided to audition for the Theatre Guild's student directed production of "Kimberly Akimbo" and I somehow landed the title role of Kimberly, a 16 year-old girl from a dysfunctional family who ages 4.5 faster than the normal person. So I'm really a 60 year old 16 year old. Kind of weird, and really scary to think about but exciting at the same time.

So, this semester is thumbs up so far, except the past few days its been FREEZING! Absolutely freezing cold, we checked the temperature Thursday morning and it was at ZERO! Thankfully campus is small enough that even the farthest classes really aren't too far and we don't have to spend 20 mins walking around outside trying to get to a class.

That's all I have for now, but I'll talk to you all later. <3