Two more weeks!

It's hard to believe, but school is starting up in two weeks!

I've ordered most or all of my books, and they are slowly piling up at the college. One of the funnest days at college is gathering my packages from the mailroom and opening them all. I suspect I am going to have close to 17 different boxes at least.

I have a number of things to do before going back. I just bought 4 yards of a dark navy, almost black, wool suiting that I will use to make a dress. I figure it's about tine I went and made a Little Black Dress, a la Audrey Hepburn. Right now it's drying in the middle of the living room. Today I'll go start work on the pattern. I might have to draft one, or I might use the Jackie pattern from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Famous-Frocks-Instructions-Recreating-Dresses--10/dp/0811877914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376498175&sr=8-1&keywords=famous+frocks
Here is a picture of the pattern: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7052935533_7de9831064_b.jpg
I'd like to rotate the top darts to point more at the shoulder, and make the top have more of a bateau neckline, but we will see what I can do.

I'll be in the Student Apartments with three girls this year, which will be very interesting! I'm looking forward to the various things that come with running our own house.

Classes are going to be really fun, and I'm toying with the idea of setting up a independent study for creative writing. I'll have to figure that out.

Bloglovin', and the Death of Google Reader

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I'm in the process of moving over to Bloglovin' because Google has discontinued my beloved Google Reader.

Things haven't been terribly busy since my May Term ended. I've come back home and been working. I can't believe it's July already! only two months before I go back! So much to do until then.

More details to be filled in soon.

Semester's End

The Spring Semester is done, and commencement is today at 3. I will be going down and cheering for all of my friends who are walking. So many of them are leaving, but I'm going to have to get used to that. Two more years and that will be me.
It looks like the May Term that I wanted is actually going to happen! I didn't find that out until I had bought the books for both that class and the backup class. Why did I buy both sets of texts? Because the campus bookstore is closing for the first week of may term, and won't reopen until the very last day that I can return the books.
I'm staying about a mile from campus at a house with some friends. It looks like I will be walking to campus. Turns out, I am going to get into shape this summer after all.
Only have three of my six classes have the grades in, and they are the three I am the least concerned about.
I discovered a new favorite video game called Artemis. It's really simple, but more fun than any multiplayer game I've played before. While it's not actually a Star Trec game, it lends itself well to the canon for its spaceship bridge simulation. Each person plays at least one different part of manning the ship, and there's a captain to tell everyone what to do. If there are enough people, he doesn't even touch a computer, but looks at the main screen that we set up in the center. I will be introducing it to my family this summer.

Thoughts on the Past Few Days

Why, when I had 10 extra days to work on a paper, did I leave a very rough draft to be completed the night before it was due?

I do not like staying up until 2am.

I don't know how I feel about this, but I think I broke Godwin's law while writing said paper.

Founder's music video night was fun, but I will never make a fool of myself on camera ever again, thank goodness we didn't win.

I still have no idea whether my May Term is going to happen.

I am totally ready for this semester to be done.

I might have a summer job. This job may have me using Facebook professionally.

Faculty Quotation of the Day:
"You ladies are strange and wonderful."-Dr. Morris

Briefly

This may be something close to hell week for me, but perhaps it's just purgatory.

That's a cheery opening.  Lets start over.

Today's chapel was really good. It was a powerful testimony of an alum who came to my college thinking he was a Christian, but living a destructive lifestyle. After he graduated, things only went down hill, to the point where he was considering suicide. God saved him, and he has been sober for over a year. His talk struck me in two ways, one that he was saved at about the same time I was, in the fall/winter of '11, two that his testimony was full of the power of God. You knew, listening to him, that he was holding tight to, and ready to glorify, a huge God.

So, that was wonderful.

Now I'm just procrastinating rather hard on the paper due tomorrow. I found this interesting poem by Robert Frost called "The Lovely Shall Be Choosers". It's strange and ambiguous, and it only just dawned on me, having had it picked out for a week or more, that a feminist reading might make an interesting interpretation. I don't tend to like feminist interpretations, unless done quite tastefully, for they seem to turn quickly into a big hate fest on men. While a few men have earned my wrath or scorn, on a whole, I rather like them, so I won't do it.

I have a book review due on Friday, and my gracious prof. from another class granted me a much needed extension, which, unfortunately, is also due on Friday. I did talk to him about it today, and he added some helpful comments.

Back to the grind stone.

Note: This was supposed to be published last night. I am still working on the paper. I don't have a thesis yet, but it's almost done.

Fun with Exams

I just took an Intro to Philosophy exam mostly dealing with the problem of evil, and managed to quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Milton's Paradise Lost in the same essay.

Spring Break pt.3 Final Notes

As with past breaks, I have done a minor portion of the things I could have done. I am going to be positive, and think about what I did do, however.
I partied with friends, and took a few walks outside.
I read Paradise Lost:

And Frankenstein:

I also read an excerpt by Alexis de Tocqueville from Democracy in America and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Burnt Norton:

I baked and cooked a lot, including a really yummy Chicken Pot Pie:
Bread

Bread

 And Pie

I found daffodils while wandering around barefoot behind the college!

I pulled out my inner Tesla and created a simple mechanism for flicking the light switch without getting out of bed:

I saw a lovely bird out of the window:

A Yellow Flicker, I think.

I left out a couple of things to keep from boring anyone.
And, and the time of this writing, I have not been stung by this wasp!

Happy studies!