ooohh weee oooh ahh ahh

ping pang walla walla bing bang...


poster design for a typography project due today.

it snowed.

and snowed and snowed.

and didn't show signs of stopping for 15+ days. good news though, it's supposed to get up to 30 degrees one day next week. my boots are getting quite a lot of use (thanks mom!) and my coats.. and scarves.. and gloves.. and my cow mug that holds my tea and hot chocolate.

more good news, i slept through the night! i feel like a baby! but i woke up this morning well rested and ready well before my alarm even went off. okay not entirely well rested but we're getting there.

i walked all over creation today. from the apartment --> printers --> building 7 ---> building 6 --> apartment --> ice rink --> building 7 --> another class in building 7 --> apartment --> building 7 --> apartment... phew! got my exercise in for today. ice skating made my legs all wobbly it was weird getting back to it after 2 weeks. PLUS they decided to skate in a clockwise direction today which totally through me off. oh oh speaking of hockey, my friend gave me a green capitals hockey shirt today!! so now i'm officially a caps fan not that it was in doubt before but for real this time.

time for my post class hot chocolate and maybe reading a design book i got from the library while i snuggle up in my clean cozy sheets in our newly vacuumed room. sounds good, doesn't it? i thought so too.

din din

mmm looks tasty? i think so.

maybe i should quit and go into food photography...

no, no. i'd have to live in a cardboard box.

we'll just continue on with this graphic design nonsense.

this was dinner tonight --and last night too for that matter. i made rice and pinto beans yesterday after class and then had soybeans for dessert (yummyyy) so tonight i decided to be radical and eat them all together. plus broccoli of course because who doesn't like broccoli? if you answered no, we can't be friends.

ooh and good news there are still enough beans and rice left for at least another 3-4 meals! what fantastic planning on my part.

got some projects to tackle. finished up my typography poster design thingamabob. working on editing some photos now. more stuff to do after. we're hoping for a full night of sleep tonight -- so did not happen last night. i washed my pillows, sheets, comforter and quilt tonight so they are all sweet smelling and still a tad warm. maybe that will help?

ps: snow update-- ITS STILL SNOWING. in fact, it has not stopped since saturday. and we're not talking like a 2 flake an hour type of nonsense. real snow guys.

twinkly lights & snow plows

i think i got a combined total of about 2 hours of sleep last night. between it taking me a million hours to fall asleep, waking up every 30 minutes for no apparent reason and the snow plow outside our window which thought that 3 am was an appropriate time to slam around and make loud noises for an extended period of time.

last night my plane was delayed by 35 minutes or so which ended up working out just fine. the plane ride was seriously cool. nighttime + blizzarding snow + city lights = seriously cool. not to mention my ipod was dead so i listened to the soundtrack from star trek for the entire hour on the inflight radio. the coolest part was flying over rochester and seeing all of the streets with the plows going up and down. ash picked me up at the airport and i spent the rest of the night unpacking and catching up.

despite all of that nonsense last night, i was up and ready for class with a good hour to spare. already finished deaf lit, next is survey of western art, typography and photo then small group & homework. busy first day back. ashley and i decided on the walk over to class that our time would be much better spent if we turned around, got back in pjs and watched movies and played in the snow all day. luckily we have some common sense so we kept walking to class.

15 days?!

i can't believe that it's already been that long since i last posted. good thing i already hit my quota for the year some time ago.

christmas was excellent. lots of family. lots of cookies. and TONS of card games (old maid, hearts, euchre, trash, etc). i'll have to dig up some pictures eventually. i tend to stop blogging when i come home because let's face it.. a good chunk of my daily readers are right here with me! ;) as for now, i've got some homework and admissions stuff to get working on. school seems pretty far away, it's a wonder i even remembered what homework i have.

sarah's getting her wisdom chompers out tomorrow morning so it looks like we'll be watching movies and making smoothies (ha! that kind of rhymes) for the next few days. no big plans for new years.

heading back to school on sunday night (late flight around 9 but tons cheaper than the earlier one) still have some friends to catch up with. things to do, people to see, sims lives to mess up (the sims is a computer game in case you didn't catch that).

check out [this] to read a cool hockey story

and [this] to see pictures of our 23 inches of snow!!

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dear snow,

as beautiful as you are tumbling downward and blanketing the ground with white powdery goodness, you pose quite a problem for anyone traveling. so while i'm currently enjoying the whole an inch an hour thing, think you could let up on wednesday and thursday? that would be much appreciated. also, i am liking the fact that weather underground is referring to you as "lake enhanced snow" as if you needed any help around here.

and while you're at it, tell your good friend mr. wind that i enjoyed his absence today. he should consider taking a break more often.

sincerely,

me

in other news.. one project, one critique, 2 tests and one paper away from winter break :)

adventures

Life has been rather eventful lately (both good and bad). So much so that this blog post has been postponed a few days.

Last Thursday Rochester, like much of the rest of the country, got slammed with snow and wintery weather. It wasn't so much deep snow drifts but the ice that was created on top of the snow. Walking to class on Thursday proved to be quite the challenge... involving not one but two times when I totally wiped out. Luckily the first time no one was around to experience my awkward tumble as it was 7:30 in the morning. The second however was in a more populated space in the middle of the day. I felt a little better when I found out that I was not the only person this happened to. Both times were not particularly bad falls although my leg is still sore days later, but they did make me feel a little nervous for my tour Thursday afternoon! Which ended up going just fine and I didn't fall once walking backwards.. go figure! It was kind of fun to give a tour in the snow, it adds a level of excitement and I got to take some back routes to avoid the outdoors. Hopefully my tour group wasn't too cold!

Life event number two... Thursday after classes I was hanging around working on homework or something of the sort when all of a sudden the fire alarm goes off. Now ordinarily, not a problem. However, as mentioned above, it was snowing bucketloads and also about 25 degrees out so I was slightly less than excited to be standing outside. I had the sense to first put on sweatpants, a winter coat and grab a blanket before heading outdoors. Public Safety came after some time to figure out the problem (no actual fire or anything as far as I know). After about 45 minutes of cold we were allowed back in except the catch was the fire alarm had not yet been disabled so we stuffed a bunch of hats and sweatshirts on to mask the noise. Ironically when it finally turned off an hour and a half later I didn't even realize it because I had become so accustom to the obnoxious noise.

Moving on, Friday morning my roommate and I decided it would be a good idea to go out to lunch and do some Christmas shopping because we had some extra time on our hands. Ashley wanted to stop by Tim Horton's for a quick cup of coffee. That quickly turned into an hour and a half cup of coffee when we realized that she had left the keys in the ignition and the car was locked. Not to worry, my handy internet searching phone found us a locksmith and we were soon on our way.

Last night was the only RIT hockey game in the WHOLE month of December. I've been rather hockey deprived lately and I've had to resort to watching tons of NHL games. Anyway, after a long winning streak, the Tigers lost to Niagara. Our shots on goal were nearly double but their goalie was on all night and their shots looked a little stronger. Definitely a good game, just wished the Tigers could have pulled out another win! Now we'll have to wait until January for another game.

And the final event was our christmas party today! Last night after the hockey game we got back and immediately set to work decorating our entire apartment with those old school paper chains and snowflakes! It looked very festive along with all of our holiday lights and live christmas tree. This morning we woke up and got to work baking lots and lots of cookies! Chocolate chip, cranberry white chocolate, peanut butter with hershey kisses, and puppy chow. A bunch of people came over for dinner and a movie. We had spaghetti (minus the syrup) all inspired by Buddy the Elf, which was of course the movie choice of tonight.










All in all, a pretty decent weekend. The nice thing about these three weeks is that while there is still work to do, there is a good amount of time for hanging out before we all leave for the holidays. The good thing about blogging is that no matter how unfortunate the situation, the first thing I think about is what a good post it would make :)

oh the weather outside is frightful

[Post from my RIT Blog this morning]

For some reason the weather this year has just not been the same. Last year the snow started coming down around early November and let up around March or April (I could totally be making that up that ending date I honestly don't remember). This year it's December 9th and we're just now getting snow. We've had a few fake flakes here in then but nothing substantial. Even now its only a few inches. It is however incredibly windy right now.

Why am I bringing this up? Because normally I would be in class not still sitting at home in my pj's and watching it from the comfort of my own bed (all while listening to Christmas music)! I was supposed to have a class at 10 am this morning which was all fine and dandy but I woke up to roll over and check my phone and got an email saying it was cancelled. Now, this is not exactly the time I need a break, but extra sleep is welcomed whenever I can get it because I've been lacking in that category lately. 13 days ago I was home and in just under 9 more days I will be back home for winter break. This is probably RITs most awkward quarter. Fall quarter works out quite well, we're here for the entire time, parent's weekend is in the middle for a little relief and then we're back at it until Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving we come back and have the first 3 weeks of winter quarter followed by a full 18 days of break time then 8 more weeks of classes and finals. Thanksgiving break is fantastic because there is no homework attached so it's a full week of freedom. Winter quarter, while you'll have work the amount depends on what classes you're taking. So far, mine doesn't look like it will be that bad. This is also an awesome time to catch up (if you've managed to get behind already during the 3 weeks) or get ahead for the remaining weeks. It works out great for some of my classes that have 3 tests (1 before and 2 after break) and for my design classes which involve projects or photoshoots. The weirdest thing going on right now is the length of some of these days. I feel like last week was the longest week of my life! Not necessarily a bad thing, it's just totally throwing off my sense of time. Looking back, I sure packed a lot into that first week which might have been part of the problem (or solution?).

Anyway, time to actually consider doing something today! I have some design projects that I'm working on already. I've also heard that the snow is rather hard so that sounds good for some snowman building!! Next post I promise to talk about my classes, as I'm taking some rather unique ones this quarter.

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edit/additions:: it's no longer snowing :( or windy for that matter. my 1 pm class is still on. and university of wisconsin cancelled all classes because it snowed 17 inches. SO JEALOUS. i want the snow, ill still go to class.

monsoon season

friday? well, sort of.

let's start off by describing yesterday morning. it was disgusting. not like, oh there is some rain disgusting.. we're talking full blown monsoon, turn your pants a different color, soak your raincoat, all the way through your backpack/art history book, mash your notecards together and make the ink bleed kind of rain. not only did i have the pleasure of experiencing this while carefully dodging worms that were being sucked into the drains but i remained wet from 9 am when i showed up for work ALL the way until my class ended at 5 (my jeans were just damp then) disgusting i tell you. my backpack is still wet and i had to find an alternative way to tote my nonsense to class today.

moving on.

art history midterm was yesterday. i went to work an hour early so that i could leave an hour early to review before the test. that lovely rain had mushed the notecards i spent like 3 hours finishing together so that was really no help. but i think the test went alright regardless.

last night i was watching harry potter thinking about how much i would love for my 8 am class to be cancelled and what do you know, a little notification pops up on my computer from my email saying "class cancelled tomorrow"! what are the chances. i'll have you know that i fully enjoyed my extra 2.5 hours of sleep and waking up at 8:30. fantastic.

worked for 2 hours this morning and i'm currently sitting in the ritz after my ice skating class waiting for imagery in design to start. then its the weekend! sort of kind of. i have so much work to finish this weekend between political science, the 3 page paper i need to write for graphic novel class, the 2 graphic novels i need to read, poster designs, imagery projects, a 3 page spread for a story and i believe that's it. i hope. there are also 2 hockey games this weekend, possible work tomorrow, a tailgating party before the games at Lovin Cup, halloween shenanigans on saturday, grocery shopping to do, and the list goes on.

next week is week NINE. WHAT?! how in the world did that happen. finals are soon. bad news bears.

rain, rain go away

dear rain,

please do not continue through this weekend, i do not enjoy being a drowned rat and almost falling flat on my face because bricks & water are a bad combination. i also do not enjoy walking through large mud puddles or having super frizzy hair. large hail, thunderstorms and high winds are not a good alternative either. 

are we clear? good, kay thanks.

sincerely,

me

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in other news, alisons coming this weekend! yay i can't wait. nothing in particular planned, just a whole lot of hanging out! 

work continues to take up the majority of my life. working from 8 until 4:30 everyday. lots and lots of inputting names, im going to develop carpal tunnel from all of this nonsense. it's okay though because i take enough breaks when all of the other people in my department are hitting each other with nerf guns and running around. also, i'm no longer eating lunch by myself! hooray for friends. 

i'm thinking of going to bed soon. it's 8:30. is that too obnoxiously early? i don't think so. 

dear self

dear self,

it's okay to sleep past 6 am especially when you went to bed at 3 am and don't have a final until 9 am. apparently that's just not possible, is it? the sun doesn't always mean it's time to get up, listen to that handy dandy alarm clock. please and thank you. 

sincerely,

me

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dear weather,

33 degrees this morning? seriously. that's wonderful that you realize that i don't like heat but I already packed away my winter coat so could we perhaps keep it around 50 degrees? that seems rather reasonable.

sincerely,

the girl who doesn't feel like wearing a coat anymore

so much for that....

WHY IS IS SNOWING/FREEZING RAINING? And, WHY ARE THERE WORMS?

seriously, it's saturday afternoon and i'm pretty sure every single one of my plans this weekend has been ruined.

last night we were all going to go out to dinner and walk over to the gallery for a MFA gallery opening. it was pouring rain and we were all dressed up-- got drenched. turns out the gallery opening was closing when we got there.

this morning we were going to wake up and get breakfast from gracies and watch spongebob. spongebob wasn't on.

at noon we were going to go to a lacrosse game. it is absolutely disgusting outside. there are worms everywhere and it's super windy/rainy and it's been snowing all morning.

at 2:30 we were all going to go ice skating. there is apparently a ice skating invitational going on today at Ritter that they forgot to put up on the schedule.

uhm, yeah. slightly annoying. anyway, i'm getting homework done. we're supposed to go to a concert/comedian thing later tonight. hopefully that's not cancelled or something... wouldn't be surprised.

oh well.

here's some pictures from our failed adventure last night...

projects, pancakes & purple ponies

projects: i have a lot of them. i spent eleven straight hours yesterday working on homework. okay, straight meaning a quick phone call with mom and dad as well as a short break for dinner. but seriously, that's a lot of work. i have a drawing due tomorrow as well as a project for elements. blech. slightly overwhelming. especially because i just found out today that it is week FOUR??!? and we're registering for fall classes. what the heck? where did this quarter go?

pancakes: went home with ashley this weekend to marathon, ny. it was quite exciting. drove down after class and work on friday, saw where her mom works, visited the waterfalls in ithaca, jumped on the trampoline and ate some delicious homemade mac & cheese! saturday morning we woke up early and drove into town for the maple festival. it was SO nice... 71 degrees. which was actually a tad too hot for me, but it was okay anyway. walked around town looking and everything. met up with one of her friends from high school who actually spent a few nights here at RIT a few weeks ago so that was fun. ended up going back to her house for a bit because the train was too full. drove into binghamton to walk around the mall and then... went to a hockey game!! the rochester amerks were playing the binghamton senators... very good game. unfortunately the amerks lost but it went into overtime as well as a shoot out which never happened here.

purple ponies: i don't really have anything to say about purple ponies, i just couldn't think of anything else important that started with "p" it may not start with the letter p... but i used powertools today! and i still have all of my fingers and toes! we're working on a project for 3d that requires wood and such so i learned how to use the bandsaw. it's actually quite fun and now i'm turning into a woodcutting fool.

hockey game! 

dave, ash and i at the falls

in other thing...it freaking snowed today. i guess it's still march, i shouldn't be too surprised. but seriously? 71 degrees and then SNOW...

"...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!

[/sarcasm]

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!)

Be careful what you say.

Learned that one the hard way. Yesterday I updated my RIT blog with a post about the weather... it was almost shorts weather yesterday! Aside from the little bit of rain in the morning it was a super nice day. I wrote about how the weather this winter hadn't actually seemed all that bad... and then today hit. I'm quite a fan of gravity because if it were not for that I probably would have landed somewhere in the middle of Kansas. It was so rainy, windy, and nasty out. By the time I got to work my pants looked like I had just taken them out of the washer soaking wet and put them on. It was so windy at times that I would just blow sideways instead of forward and to top it all off, it was sleeting directly into my face. Real nice. 

One more class tonight and then it's the weekend! Dave brought over some pink flowers today so between those, Ashley's pink light and sheets and all of the heart decorations our room is VERY valentines-y. There is a special "valentines" day dinner at Gracie's complete with heart shaped ravioli...  I think Ashley and I are going to go check that out before class at 6. The guys are busy tonight so I think we're just going to do a girls movie night :) Working tomorrow from 10-4  and then it's the REAL weekend! No hockey games though-- we talked about driving up to Massachusetts tomorrow afternoon to see them play but it's week 9 so it's not really the best time... I don't know what we're going to do without our hockey fix! Saturday I think there is a group of us going to ihop for valentines day dinner. Working on Saturday too and working on projects-- one more week until finals....

Nice Day # 2

These nice days are pretty fantastic although I'm thinking that I wouldn't enjoy them as much if it was always this warm. It's 37 today and it feels like spring! No coat needed and when we went on our walk I was actually burning up. Went out to breakfast this morning with the guys-- we managed to wake up at 10 despite going to bed at 3:30 and being rudely awoken at 8:45 to some super loud, super annoying noise in the room next to us that went on for a good 30 minutes. 

Last night we went to hockey game number two of the weekend... and after the sad loss on friday... the TIGERS WON! We even got our faces painted and apparently we were on TV cheering? 

evan and mark 

dave, gage and the pep band

go tigers! 

(left-right: mark, ashley, francesca, me, evan) after getting our faces painted! 

the girls... (minus amanda because she's lame and didn't come! just kidding :) )

After the hockey game we did movie night number 3 of the weekend and watched Sweeney Todd! 

photo credit goes to Ashley, i've been really horrible about remembering to bring my camera along with me.. oops! 

FIFTY ONE DEGREES!

I'd like to take the time to point out that it is currently 4 degrees warmer here in Rochester than it is in Clarksville. IT'S FIFTY-ONE DEGREES!!! Do you know how freaking exciting that is? Ashley and I woke up, opened our window and then decided to go frolick around campus in our PJs... with NO WINTER COAT. The only unfortunate thing is that when 12 foot piles of snow melt it produces a ridiculously large amount of puddling and mooshy muddy yuckiness.

Last night was excellently fun. After work we went to the Rail Jam to watch people snowboard down the piles of snow which was actually cooler than expected. Wandered back and met up with Francesca and Amanda for dinner at Gracie's before the HOCKEY GAME. The first period was seriously the most exciting thing ever... Tigers were up 3 2. They scored two of the goals about 15 seconds apart, it was crazy. Much to the disappointment of the fans, coaches and entire team, the Tigers lost 4 6 to Sacred Heart *big sad face*. It broke their 11 game winning streak and they've dropped to second in the AHA, one point below Air Force.

Today sets the record for the latest that I've ever slept in while in college... 1 pm! I guess going to bed at 3 last night made me tired super tired :) I was a good kid last week though and finished all of my homework on Thursday night that was due Monday!!!

Anyway, time to finish getting ready and such before going to another hockey tailgate and then the game! Movie night later tonight, perhaps? Last night we headed over to the guys floor again and watched Happy Gilmore.

Ah, the weather...

Rochester: SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES DURING BURSTS OF HEAVIER SNOWFALL FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 8 TO 12 INCHES BY LATE WEDNESDAY EVENING.

--------------------> Recommendation: Wear some gloves and consider zipping up your coat when walking outdoors.

Clarksville: 

PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY IN THE FORM OF SNOW AND SLEET LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING... BUT THEN CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN BEFORE MIDNIGHT. TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING WEDNESDAY MORNING... REACHING HIGHS AROUND 40 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THAT WILL ALLOW PRECIPITATION TO PHASE OVER TO RAIN AND SOME MELTING OF THE ICING.

ADDITIONAL SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING WILL BE 1 TO 3 INCHES. THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ICE ACCUMULATIONS OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY OF A TENTH TO AROUND A QUARTER OF AN INCH.

---------------------> Recommendation: Avoid the outdoors! Go immediately to your local grocery store and stock up on food for a good week, stay away from doors and windows... the inch of snow might collapse your house. 

It's All Your Fault!

This week is the first time since I was 10 that a democrat has been in office and so far the only change I've noticed is the 5 foot snowpile that was dumped in the path on which I walk to class. But, I don't think that Obama had anything to do with that so I'll give him a break :)

It's been busy busy around here like always. It's been snowing constantly and then all of a sudden yesterday it got up to 40... springtime?? Two hours later a cold front blew through so we're back down to the 7 degrees where we belong.



I've been watching a TON of hockey. Two hockey games last weekend (already mentioned in posts below). Then on Thursday Ashley and I along with two of our friends left at 5 pm and drove an hour and a half to Buffalo to see the Tigers play! They won 5 -2 against the golden griffins -- ugliest mascot ever. A lot of the corner crew from RIT was there so there was lots and lots of cheering.. there were actually more RIT fans there than the other team and they kind of sucked at cheering. I do believe at one point the announcer threatened to kick us out for being obnoxious. Whoops. "It's all your fault... It's all your fault.." We got rather lost on the ride back but on the plus side we found the sketchy part of town! Not that we were looking for it ;) Eventually found the right road and we back it back around 11. Worked for a few hours Friday morning and then went to a minor and concentration fair with Ashley to figure out what the heck we want to do. After that we met up with the boys and went to lunch at Gracies. We decided a while back that we really needed orange jeans to wear to all of the games so we finally drove over to the mall to look. Unfortunately Rochester does not seem to like the color orange because there is NOTHING. Oh well, still walked around and just looked at stuff. Drove back and raced to get dinner before the Women's Hockey game at 7. We literally ate dinner while running down the quarter mile-- it would have made the best movie ever because it was so windy and really hard to eat while walking really fast. Made it to the game and luckily all the guys had gone ahead and saved us seats. The game was pretty good but no where near as fun as the men's games. They did go into over time which has never happened before. Sudden death in overtime when they're tied 1 to 1 is rather exciting. Walked back and we all hung out in our room for a while. The guys decided to go back to try to go to sleep because they have a LAN party tomorrow-- yeah, what losers :) Just kidding! Somehow we ended up going over to their floor after that and chilling in the hall until 3 am. Their floor is all male so since we're both girls (obviously...) everyone started coming out of their room going "omg girls!!" It was kind of amusing. Eventually went to bed and now i'm sitting here annoying Ashley because I'm typing this up and not going to eat lunch with her!!! Guess I should get out of the chair and go before she throws things at me =)

Later I'll put up some pictures from projects I've been working on as well as pictures from the hockey games! 

E to the X. D X D Y

Secant, Cosine, Tangent, Sine

3.14159, Pi, Pi times 3

Let's go! Let's go! RIT!

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.