Hello October!

Sorry for two totally inane posts in one day. I PROMISE I will try my best to actually update this site with worthwhile posts.

First, please let me rant! I believe I can say with all honesty that the past seven days have been the most busy ones of my undergraduate academic career. Missing two days of class is detrimental when taking 21 credit hours... Put on top of that two lab reports, a presentation to the department on research I haven't considered in two months, a huge grad class project, 4 hours of the general GRE, completely boring 18th century Italian texts, last-minute making of a cardboat boat and yes FINALLY I can breathe thankyouverymuch.

Phew. Ok, now that I'm done whining. I expect the rest of the semester to go a bit better. I have been away every weekend since school started, and taking two days of the week off is difficult to catch up on. No more traveling, more studying and sleeping!

Anyway. Fall is in the air and the crisp smell of autumn leaves makes my heart happy! Soon to be- apple cider, orchard visits, Riley Festival, pumpkin carving, demo shows, and Halloween! :) Don't forget about the annual "This is what I did in October post"- keep a keen eye out for it.... 

Some Things

My beautiful Autumn decorations, skillfully cut and wound by Jenny and Lauren

Last Friday Dinner was in the spirit of Autumn and Fall-themed. As a double-header, we also celebrated Halloween by wearing costumes (those of us that were cool enough to dress up). On the Autumn Menu:

-Barley with peppers from Steven's garden
-Homemade bread
-Green beans
-Sweet potato
-Soup
-Pumpkin bread
-Pumpkin pie
-Steven's homemade rhubarb sorbet
-A nice white wine
-Hot cider to top it all off

Such a happy family we make! From left: me, Alec, Jenny, (Steven taking picture), and Lauren. Eric, as always, is late.

 Let the apple bobbing begin! I can remember bobbing for apples once ever in my life and it was very long ago. I went into it thinking it would be a piece of cake. YEAH RIGHT.

Superman's first attempt. Not as easy as it looks.

Eric and I try to tag-team it by using teamwork. Another fail.

 After much eating and talking, we played piano and sang a myriad of songs late into the night. Inevitably things ended with Steven and I going through the score of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. All in all, a great night.

Oh, I suppose that I forgot to mention who came in costume. Jenny was Superman, Alec a cowboy, Eric dressed as Con, a professor in the astro department.
I of course portrayed Gravity, dressing up as a tree. When people asked what I was, I would drop an apple (that I carried with me all day, waiting with palpable excitement for someone to ask what I supposed to be) and say '9.8 m/s/s'.
All in a day's work for this uber-nerd.

Finally I just cheat and push the apple to the bottom, sinking my whole face in. BUT I GOT THAT APPLE. (Look at that guilty face...)