It's going to be April 30th tomorrow and there's a frost advisory tonight. Seriously? And to make it worse, they turned the heat off in our building a week or so ago because it was so warm. Basically, I'm going to be an ice cube in the morning. Let's just hope it doesn't make me any sicker.
Monday, April 28, 2008
This past weekend was again, busy.
Chartwell's [the source of all food on this wonderful campus] is doing a fundraiser of sorts for student organizations on campus. Your group can be put into a rotation at Chaifetz Arena and work a concession stand if you have enough people, or just a little stand [Dippin Dots, Budweiser, etc.] and then your organization gets 10% of the profits made, but you're guaranteed $100 at least. So Friday night a bunch of us from Students for Life worked the Barry Manilow concert. Let me just say, it was an interesting crowd. We were able to watch parts of the concert when it wasn't busy and Barry is quite the performer! We don't know how much we made yet but from 3 of the 4 registers, we made close to $2000, so we at least made $200! Not too shabby!
Saturday was Spring Fever which was a carnival and concert this year. Usually it's just a concert, but since the Arena just opened, SAB decided to utilize that and make it huge. I headed to the carnival around 1:30 with Biji and Hannah L. Some of Biji's friends from St. Louis College of Pharmacy met us there too. For the carnival being organized [for the most part] by students, it was great. There were 5 or 6 rides and then quite a few booths by student organizations as a way for them to make some money. Students for Life had the funnel cake stand as always. I worked the last shift and guess what?! We ran out of batter. Now usually that's a bad thing, which I guess it is, but usually we don't sell that many so this time it was a good thing! After cleanup was done, we headed inside to the concert. There were 5 bands/artists: Tyler Hilton, Chingy, The Starting Line, Jo Dee Messina, and Augustana. Quite the lineup, huh? The theme was Rock, Rap and Rawhide if that helps. Overall it wasn't bad, just extremely long [it started at 6 and it ended at 12:15] and loud at times.
Sunday I went to the mall with Hannah L. and Biji because they needed to get a couple things and I wanted to get off campus for a little while. Of course, I didn't find anything I liked, but that's probably for the better. Well, I did find a few skirts at GAP but I decided to just wait until I go home to get them. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch which was delicious! Afterwards I took a nap because I was reallllllly tired. When I woke up, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus [and still do] I don't know what happened during that nap! My heads been killing me, and I pretty sure I have a double ear infection, sore throat, and it's hurting to breathe again. So I've been taking ibuprofen and drinking lots of water and sleeping but it doesn't seem to be helping. I felt a little better earlier today and thought it was going away, but no such luck. But that's probably a good sign so hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better!
That's all for now...and it was a long post. I'll have a lot to post about next weekend [nothing exciting or blog worthy seems to happen during the week] because Sarah and Elizabeth are coming down for a couple days! Annnd the much anticipated Cubs/Cardinals game on Sunday! Can't wait!
And please continue to pray for the Smith family. Angie posted a slideshow of pictures of the family during her pregnancy and of Audrey. The background music is a song she wrote with her husband, Todd, of Selah. She also just posted a link for a video, they were interviewed for. She explains it on her blog. Yes, it's long [over 22 minutes] but well worth it!
Chartwell's [the source of all food on this wonderful campus] is doing a fundraiser of sorts for student organizations on campus. Your group can be put into a rotation at Chaifetz Arena and work a concession stand if you have enough people, or just a little stand [Dippin Dots, Budweiser, etc.] and then your organization gets 10% of the profits made, but you're guaranteed $100 at least. So Friday night a bunch of us from Students for Life worked the Barry Manilow concert. Let me just say, it was an interesting crowd. We were able to watch parts of the concert when it wasn't busy and Barry is quite the performer! We don't know how much we made yet but from 3 of the 4 registers, we made close to $2000, so we at least made $200! Not too shabby!
Saturday was Spring Fever which was a carnival and concert this year. Usually it's just a concert, but since the Arena just opened, SAB decided to utilize that and make it huge. I headed to the carnival around 1:30 with Biji and Hannah L. Some of Biji's friends from St. Louis College of Pharmacy met us there too. For the carnival being organized [for the most part] by students, it was great. There were 5 or 6 rides and then quite a few booths by student organizations as a way for them to make some money. Students for Life had the funnel cake stand as always. I worked the last shift and guess what?! We ran out of batter. Now usually that's a bad thing, which I guess it is, but usually we don't sell that many so this time it was a good thing! After cleanup was done, we headed inside to the concert. There were 5 bands/artists: Tyler Hilton, Chingy, The Starting Line, Jo Dee Messina, and Augustana. Quite the lineup, huh? The theme was Rock, Rap and Rawhide if that helps. Overall it wasn't bad, just extremely long [it started at 6 and it ended at 12:15] and loud at times.
Sunday I went to the mall with Hannah L. and Biji because they needed to get a couple things and I wanted to get off campus for a little while. Of course, I didn't find anything I liked, but that's probably for the better. Well, I did find a few skirts at GAP but I decided to just wait until I go home to get them. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch which was delicious! Afterwards I took a nap because I was reallllllly tired. When I woke up, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus [and still do] I don't know what happened during that nap! My heads been killing me, and I pretty sure I have a double ear infection, sore throat, and it's hurting to breathe again. So I've been taking ibuprofen and drinking lots of water and sleeping but it doesn't seem to be helping. I felt a little better earlier today and thought it was going away, but no such luck. But that's probably a good sign so hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better!
That's all for now...and it was a long post. I'll have a lot to post about next weekend [nothing exciting or blog worthy seems to happen during the week] because Sarah and Elizabeth are coming down for a couple days! Annnd the much anticipated Cubs/Cardinals game on Sunday! Can't wait!
And please continue to pray for the Smith family. Angie posted a slideshow of pictures of the family during her pregnancy and of Audrey. The background music is a song she wrote with her husband, Todd, of Selah. She also just posted a link for a video, they were interviewed for. She explains it on her blog. Yes, it's long [over 22 minutes] but well worth it!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
My life since I posted last has been, well, busy.
Saturday morning I was up at 6 A.M. for Special Olympics. I was really excited for it, but already exhausted so I was hoping it would go well. We got to the high school where it was taking place at 7:30 and just sat around until about 9 when Opening Ceremonies started. Then we were supposed to be paired up with a buddy. Well because of the weather, not many athletes from the first group we were paired with showed up, so they didn't have enough athletes for us so we were given two other groups. Those didn't have enough either. I was a little upset because I was looking forward to being a buddy and now, I wasn't going to get to do it. Eventually, we were paired up with a group that was late. I was paired with Robert. He was 45 years old and high functioning. We hung out with Caitlin and her buddy, Harry all day. Robert and Harry's group had to leave early, so we started walking around and hanging out with other people and their buddies. I ended up with Kathleen, Megan and Brendan. Brendan had a little bit of time before his next event, so Megan and I went with him to one of the hallways and raced cars down it and had a lot of fun! After Brendan's last event, we said our goodbyes and headed back to SLU.
As soon as I got back, I changed clothes and headed to my bed. I was able to get an hour and a half in before Relay for Life. As always, I had a ton of fun. Relay is one of my favorite events at SLU. It's so awesome to see the campus come together for such a great cause. Everyone from my team was gone by 3 A.M. or so but some girls from Students for Life were there with their floor so I was able to stay until 6 with them.
Sunday night, I watched a movie, "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" for Sign Language. It's about a family with a hearing father and a deaf mother and a boy who was born hearing but is now completely deaf and their struggles in deciding whether or not they want him to receive a cochlear implant or not. In class on Monday, we spent the whole time discussing the movie and different perspectives on CI's. This discussion amongst other things lead me to the dilemma of possibly changing my major, again. I would really like to go into Speech Pathology or become a teacher for the deaf. But this would prolong my schooling even longer, and I would probably end up transferring etc. So I may be adding Communication Science Disorders as a minor instead of completely changing my major although, who knows what I'll have decided by Fall semester!
Saturday morning I was up at 6 A.M. for Special Olympics. I was really excited for it, but already exhausted so I was hoping it would go well. We got to the high school where it was taking place at 7:30 and just sat around until about 9 when Opening Ceremonies started. Then we were supposed to be paired up with a buddy. Well because of the weather, not many athletes from the first group we were paired with showed up, so they didn't have enough athletes for us so we were given two other groups. Those didn't have enough either. I was a little upset because I was looking forward to being a buddy and now, I wasn't going to get to do it. Eventually, we were paired up with a group that was late. I was paired with Robert. He was 45 years old and high functioning. We hung out with Caitlin and her buddy, Harry all day. Robert and Harry's group had to leave early, so we started walking around and hanging out with other people and their buddies. I ended up with Kathleen, Megan and Brendan. Brendan had a little bit of time before his next event, so Megan and I went with him to one of the hallways and raced cars down it and had a lot of fun! After Brendan's last event, we said our goodbyes and headed back to SLU.
As soon as I got back, I changed clothes and headed to my bed. I was able to get an hour and a half in before Relay for Life. As always, I had a ton of fun. Relay is one of my favorite events at SLU. It's so awesome to see the campus come together for such a great cause. Everyone from my team was gone by 3 A.M. or so but some girls from Students for Life were there with their floor so I was able to stay until 6 with them.
Sunday night, I watched a movie, "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" for Sign Language. It's about a family with a hearing father and a deaf mother and a boy who was born hearing but is now completely deaf and their struggles in deciding whether or not they want him to receive a cochlear implant or not. In class on Monday, we spent the whole time discussing the movie and different perspectives on CI's. This discussion amongst other things lead me to the dilemma of possibly changing my major, again. I would really like to go into Speech Pathology or become a teacher for the deaf. But this would prolong my schooling even longer, and I would probably end up transferring etc. So I may be adding Communication Science Disorders as a minor instead of completely changing my major although, who knows what I'll have decided by Fall semester!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Seeing as I spend a great deal of time at my computer, whether it be doing homework or talking to friends online, I thought I would go ahead and start a blog! There's not too much going on that I really need to write about to everyone, but oh well! I hope I don't bore you too much!
I also want to encourage you to read the story of Audrey Caroline. Please keep the Smith family in your prayers this week and especially on Sunday when they are having the memorial service for Audrey.
I also want to encourage you to read the story of Audrey Caroline. Please keep the Smith family in your prayers this week and especially on Sunday when they are having the memorial service for Audrey.
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