"...all the voices of the wind..."

i love the wind. i enjoy being blown from side to side and not being able to get to class in the ten minutes that it's supposed to take. i really like when my legs get so frozen that I can't even feel that they are attached to my body anymore. and i especially like when there is sleet involved and it hits my face straight on. it's such a good feeling!

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anyway! one class and one final to go then it's spring break! woohoo! that's a lot of exclamation points! 

i'll have some more work from this quarter to put up in a while, i have to get around to uploading it first. next week is looking like oodles of fun. movie night tonight. concert at the bugjar in downtown rochester tomorrow. some outdoor adventure movie thing on saturday. coffee downtown with art kids on sunday. work monday/tuesday. dollar movie theater tuesday night. strong museum of play for kids and lunch downtown? on wednesday. work and a final on thursday. hockey vs air force on friday/saturday. then flying home early sunday morning! 

(thanks mom for finding the comic!)

2 AM Firetrucks

So, after I posted last night I climbed into my toasty bed and fell asleep. An hour later (around 2 am) the entire room starts flashing with strobe lights and the fire alarm goes off. I'm on the top bunk and let's just say when you're woken abruptly in the middle of the night the first instinct is not to climb down the correct way. Basically, I just lept off the top. Of course, I happen to be sleeping in a tank top last night so I scrambled to find a coat and boots. I'm actually not entirely sure how we made it out the door because neither Ashley nor I were very awake and thinking correctly. But we walked downstairs and out into the lovely 2 degree Rochester weather. I guess I had enough smarts to grab a scarf on the way out so I was pretty toasty. We eventually got the idea to go in NRH and sit in the tunnels until the fire department had come and all that. To say the least, we were pretty annoyed because walking up and down 6 flights of stairs and outside wakes you up and makes it really hard to fall back asleep. Finally got let back in only to realize that the "fire" was on our floor and someone had burnt popcorn.. AGAIN. What the heck guys, stop eating popcorn at 2 am and for gosh sakes stand by the microwave and don't let it burn. 

I think they should ban popcorn in dorms, it's the only time our microwave ever catches on fire. 

I did get to sleep in until almost noon today so that was okay :) 

Four

Why yes, if you so happened to be so bored this morning that you were looking up the current weather for Rochester, New York you would have found that it was a whopping 4 degrees. Luckily, my 8 am class was cancelled because we have a paper due today but I did have to get my butt out of bed for a 9 am. Our room feels like a sauna so I couldn't really judge today's temperature based off of that. I piled on some clothes and headed off to class. I was pleasantly surprised to find that 4 degrees is actually not that cold-- if you are dressed correctly. I think it's gotten up to 8 degrees now which is okay by me, it feels nice outside. Think that I've become used to cold weather? Yep. This is my kind of weather. Blue skys, piles of fresh snow and COLD. Mmmm. The only unfortunate thing is that when I walk to class or anywhere really, I listen to my ipod. However, when it is this cold there is lots of static which means those little electronic things in your ears shock you. Not very pleasant. 

Well, Ashley's back now which means breakfast time! Then class, then homework. I think we might be going to an acoustic concert tonight at Java Wally's. 

Tad Chilly

Well, isn't that a pleasant thing to wake up to on an OCTOBER morning. It could start snowing if it was 5 degrees cooler...

Rant Session Needed

There are some days when complaining is just necessary. This is one of those days. 

It's a rainy, yucky 50 something degree day here in Rochester. It's week 5 which is exactly halfway through the quarter which means lotsss of projects and such to complete. I'm also in the middle of a cold complete with sore throat, runny nose and feeling hot/cold. It's wonderful. Today was one of my two long days; classes from noon until 9 pm with two breaks at 1 and 5. Except today my 2 pm class ran over so I didn't end up getting out until 10 minutes before my 6 pm class leaving no time for any dinner other than one of those applesauce cups. So, basically I was in class from 2pm until 9 pm straight. Got out at 9 and then went and got myself a smoothie (yumm, good suggestion mom!). Waiting around until a floor meeting at 10:30 to discuss how the heck our bathrooms are getting so messy and full of junk that.

Now, I should probably end this and go get my laundry out of the washer before someone steals it or spills it all over the floor.