10/10

About this time last year I wrote something about all of the things I did in October. This year's edition:

-Got my first tattoo, Elaine pierced her ears and I cut her hair AND Jenny dyed her hair... all in one night.
-Went home and visited Riley Fest with family and best friend.
-Got a cat! And she is cute!! >^.^<
-Flag football with the astronomy club team 'Galactic Cannibals'... we lost all 3 games but I had so much fun! Manged to depants 2+ QB's and hit another one in the crotch.
-Brought a big cardboard box and traffic cone into the AURA.
-Canadian Thanksgiving at Jenny's house in the middle of the woods.
-Saw Rent with Eric and Jenny.
-Eric being in a 'stripper-cake' for Teresa's 21st birthday party. Don't ask.
-At least 2 happy-hour Steak 'n Shake visits.
-Studying Quantum Physics at Lake Monroe.
-One-year anniversary of the first Friday Dinner.
-Physics & Astronomy Open House, where IU physics club performed a truly astounding demo show 'Captain Planet and the Physiteers'... lighting my hands on fire and electromagnetized hair.
-Dennis James playing the organ to the silent film The Bat.
-Halloween Bowling and dressing as a hippie.
-Fall Friday Dinner dressed as 'gravity'. Good food, friends, and music.
-Took part in a haunted house. I got to scare the pants off people for 7 straight hours... pretty tiring but lots of fun!

College is great. :]

"I Smoke Myself to Sleep...

And blame post-modern things I can't relate... like alcohol and coffee beans."

I've been listening a lot to the album Dog Problems by The Format lately. It seems fitting.

E&M exam in 10 hours- goodnight.

"I've reached the point where all I want
Is to sleep around in hopes that I will catch back up
We are parallel lines
We’re running in circles
We're never meant to cross"

Appeal THIS Citation

Well, today I received my first ever parking ticket. I heard that IU built a whole parking garage off of parking fines. A little ironic, really. If I had left twenty minutes earlier I wouldn't have gotten the ticket... grumble grumble

The Week of Nightmarish Busy-ness is almost over. 2 homework assignments, 2 exams, a paper (in Italian...), physics/ astronomy open house and an undetermined volume of coffee later, I'm about to cross the finish line after one last exam tomorrow. That is, until the multitude of other things spring up like they somehow do.

I think I've finally understood why my life is so crazy busy. Well, I can tell you the obvious answer (or trivial solution, as we call it in linear algebra... Ha! Get it?! No?...) to that, which is just that I do too damn much. But, the underlying reason is that I simply cannot say no. I should have paid more attention in elementary and middle school when they taught how to say no to drugs... When people ask me to do things for them, or if I want to be involved in such and such, or go to dinner, or be in a haunted house, etc. etc... I can't say no! Mostly because those things are fun and exciting! And, let's be honest, you're only young once and college is the time of life when you will have opportunities to do some amazing and unique things that you probably won't be able to any other point. There is so much cool stuff going on all the time! How can you say no to playing flag football, or going sailing on a clear autumn day, or going to a concert on a wednesday night before an exam?

Eh, in 10 years I'll be able to look back and 'appreciate' my lifestyle. Ok, let's be honest- I'll be more insane by then. Unlike a wine, I do not mature with time. Luckily I get sweeter! And my humor gets drier! Haha! Am I not so witty?!

A Word From The Not-So-Wise

Things that work in movies rarely, if ever, work in real life. Just so you know.

But I'm a big fan of the 'try everything once to figure out if it works' method. Which often backfires.

People...

They be makin' me mad.