Longest Week Of My Life..

Well, it's finally Friday and I'm pretty excited about it! I get done with class at noon and will then be heading home for the weekend. This week has been pretty stressful, due to the fact that I've had four papers due this week. I'm ready for a break! I have two brothers, one older (a senior at Purdue) and one younger (a junior in high school) and they have both been wrestling since they were about 5 years old. Wrestling has been such a big part of our family because it takes a lot of time and commitment, not only for the wrestlers, but for their families as well. This weekend is sectionals and I am going home to watch my little brother wrestle. He got hurt during football season and was unable to wrestle up till now. It was a pretty big deal for our family. He suffered a concussion and pretty out of it for a long time. He had to make several visits to the neurologist to monitor his brain and his heart because of the medicines that they had him on. They told him that he would most likely be done with contact sports forever, which really bummed him and the rest of the family out.  Anyway, he was just recently released by the neurologist and by the athletic trainer at the high school. My parents told him that it would be okay for him to practice to see how it goes. Now, the coach is giving him a chance to wrestle one of the wrestlers for a spot on the varsity team and a chance to wrestle at sectionals. My brother feels bad to be taking the place of one of the wrestlers that has worked hard all season, but the whole team has been really encouraging and accepting of the whole deal. Anyway, I hope all goes well and he can at least get one match under his belt for the year! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

I Told Myself I Wasn't Going To, But Here It Is.

I was going to stay away from blogging about the Bears game, but I just can't help but make a few comments... I am a devoted Bears fan and probably always will be. I back them through thick and thin. Now that I said that, I would also like to add that I don't know how Cutler EVER made it into the NFL. My friends give me crap all the time about the Bears and like to count all the interceptions Cutler throws every game just to irritate me. The funny thing about that is, it really doesn't get to me because I think Cutler is a big pile of dog poo to begin with (and that is being nice..).

So anyway, the Bears lost and now it is only proper to root for Green Bay in the Superbowl since they beat my team out... WRONG! Everyone keeps feeding me that bull crap line, but I have never liked the Packers and never will. Sooo GO STEELERS! 

Also, I would like to add that last weekend I made the decision to try to stop cursing. Well, needless to say I picked a reallll bad weekend to start this. Writing the National Gaze paper got frustrating at times and the game on Sunday.. Lets put it this way, I slipped a few times. Now I am facing the challenge head on. 

I am a little nervous about the intensive reviews Thursday.. I'm not sure if I'm ready to hear how bad my writing is from the entire class. Oh well, it will only make me better right??

Creeper Much?

I am sitting in the Atrium like I do every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after my 8am criminal justice class waiting for my math class to start at 11am. Its pretty funny to sit in here and just observe what everyone is doing and what is going on. I like to do this when I am bored and don't have much of anything else going on. There is a guy a few tables away just sitting there and surveying the room. He'll look at something or someone and make a face like he's doesn't approve of whatever it is he is looking at. The people coming out of the food area look around the room to see where they want to sit. Do they want to sit where the sun is shining in? What about by the big table of girls that are being loud and are gossiping about who knows what? Maybe by the wall where they are able to plug in their computers? Or just sit back where they can see everything that is going on like I am doing. Ah, another girl joins in on the gossip. As I sit here, I try to make eye contact with the people that are walking past. Some of them are nice and smile or say hi, others look like they are on a mission and don't take their eyes off of the path they are walking, yet some will look and then look away very quickly. This is pretty amusing to me. I love watching people to see how they act in different settings. There are several people sitting by themselves reading or studying, which I should probably be doing.. I have a quiz in my math class today. Oh, and our paper to write.. I'll get to it sometime!

Wow, I am such a creeper sometimes. Haha. But don't judge, I know everyone has sat in a dining hall or some crowded place and have done the same thing. As for right now, I will bring my observation session to a close.

Ice + No Glasses = A REAL Bad Day

Wednesday morning. 6am. Alarm goes off. I want to sleep in for 15 minutes so I shut off alarm and lay back down. Wake up. Look at the clock. 7:40am.. SHIT. I got up, checked my email for class cancellations (no such luck), brushed my teeth, got dressed, slipped on some shoes, and left the room. 7:55am I'm walking to the elevator and realize I forgot my glasses. There was no time to go back so I kept on going. 7:57 I get outside and begin my adventure to class. 8:01 my first fall. 8:07 my second fall. 8:10 I finally get to class. With a wet ass and blurry vision, I sat in class for the remaining 40 minutes annoyed and hating the fact I wanted to sleep in this morning. After class my mom calls me and tells me my little brother, who is a sophomore in high school, got today off because of the ice. Sometimes I wish I were still in high school so I could get a day off or a delay for the bad weather. As the day went on my day got wayyyyyy better and I was no longer upset about my awful morning. The moral of the story is, NEVER have an 8am class and move somewhere with no ice or snow.

Log #2

Tuesday 1/18/11: We started off class with Heather and Chao reading the first logs. Then we had a little refresher course on ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos. McArdle showed a video clip from Glengarry Glen Ross and discussed how ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos were used within the clip. I never knew how much Alec Baldwin liked to say the 'F' word. McArdle once again mentioned how great his hair is, but little did he know, it wasn't up to snuff. The class told him he had better get the hairspray out of his bag to fix it up. After sharing a laugh, McArdle then started discussing the National Gaze. He split us into small groups where we had to come up with ten things that were most important to us. Most people in the groups shared friends, family, and education as being the most important. He told us we had a pick a third world country to write our papers on and email it to him to approve. Then we were able to leave.. Sweet. 

Thursday 1/20/11: The whole class met at the library. Once everyone arrived, McArdle led us all down the spiral stairs to a room full of computers. Eric Fisher spent the class period showing us how to utilize the library's resources to do research for our papers. After he was done, there was some extra time to start researching our countries. McArdle further explained the requirements for the paper to clear up the confusion we were having. That's pretty much it.

Purdue Bound

This weekend I am spending my time at Purdue. I came here with my friends Sarah and Maggie. We are staying the weekend with our friends Kate and Rachel in their apartment. Sarah was my roommate my freshman year and we have been best friends ever since! I actually live about a half hour away from Sarah at home. I was baffled that we didn't know each other before coming to Ball State. Maggie is my roommate this year and she lived just a few door down from Sarah and I my freshman year. They are pretty much the best. Kate and Rachel went to high school with Sarah, but after meeting them, we were instant friends. Let the festivities begin!

English=Not My Cup O' Tea..

Since we are supposed to write these things in order for everyone to get to know each other, here is probably the first thing everyone needs to know about me... I HATE ENGLISH. I can speak it and write it so why do we continually need to be taking these classes?

I was completely dreading going to class. When I got there I couldn't figure out why we were having class in the architecture building. I had never before had to go there for anything and now I have to be there several times a week? Then someone came into the room shouting. Come to find out it was our teacher. GREAT! I thought if I had to come to class and hear that everyday I would definitely be needing to go to WalMart to stalk up on some aspirin. Over all, class wasn't as bad as what I thought it was going to be. I guess McArdle isn't that bad either, even though he "talks loudly" and thinks he knows everything there is to know about movies..

After class I was browsing the net and came across this picture. Now every time McArdle says something about his hair being so great, I am going to picture this. :)

P.S. I like orange and blue... GO BEARS!