My week went very well; the deadline for my big research paper was pushed back to this Friday, which makes me very happy, even though Nigeria is a very sad topic. Funny story: I went to the review session and ended up complaining to Prof. Galvan about how I had an ethical issue with suggesting the methods we've learned in class for Nigeria and he kind of gave me a look and basically called me a communitarian, whatever that means.
Also this week, I went to a seminar thingy about speed reading and learned some excellent tips, which I put into a lot of practice this week and pretty much doubled by reading speed, which is encouraging, and makes me want to read even more. As a partial consequence, I have discovered many new places to read. There are a lot. I want to see how many more days I can go by without studying in the same place once.
Also this week, I went to a seminar thingy about speed reading and learned some excellent tips, which I put into a lot of practice this week and pretty much doubled by reading speed, which is encouraging, and makes me want to read even more. As a partial consequence, I have discovered many new places to read. There are a lot. I want to see how many more days I can go by without studying in the same place once.
Socially, my life has blossomed. I have been getting to know a lot of people for reals this week. Since the InterVarsity Fall Conference, I am no longer "one of the new people", I am now a real member and everybody knows me a little bit now. Also, NCM folks know me now too! Plus, I have been hanging out with lots of people from my hall! Namely: Ryan, Justin, Allison, Ashley, Julia, Susie, Alexsondria, Sam, Nora, Sharayah, Jonathan, Arion, and Amanda, though not usually at the same time.
So, the school week was pretty tame, even boring, but the weekend has been crazy. Friday night a bunch of hall people watched some funny movies and we randomly went to Target, where I spent a lot of money, but I bought a coat, pj pants, excellent sweat pants (which now are covered in hot chocolate- I should do laundry), and a white shirt which I needed for Saturday. Anyway, we stayed up really late Friday night, I think I dozed off at about 4:15 am. Then Saturday afternoon when we all woke up we went to the Pancake house on Franklin Blvd and had a delicious brunch.
And then, at 3pm I got picked up by Shantell and Jacob, from NCM, and we went to Corvallis. Why did we do this? Well, NCM folks over at OSU needed help running their concession stand, and were willing to pay each of us $40, so naturally, we flocked to Reser Stadium like the ducks we are. Basically, I never want to fill another cup of hot chocolate again in my life. But me and Shantell had an amazing dance party THE ENTIRE TIME!!!! So, we got back to Eugene around 1am and I so went to bed.
Then this morning I went to church at my favorite Harvest Community Church (HCC) and then afterwards eight of us went to Taco Bell for some awesome cheap food. Conversation included such topics as: The Awesomeness of the Naked Brothers Band, whose face Gabie should get a tattoo of (and where), the Chronicles of Narnia as an allegory, the girl that was hitting on Jacob at the football game, Alaska, the definition of the word "pillaging", and much talk about being generally young and awesome.
When we got back, Fred called me. I guess she is quite set on being here next fall, so that's amazingly cool. I'll start looking for apartments sometime after break. I want one near campus, preferable on the west side (closer to most of the departments, but more dangerous for pedestrians, also in closeness to all the sorority/fraternity houses, blech) or on the south side (quieter and more available, but have to walk through graveyard, which is not good at night). The only requirement as to the apartment is that Fred can bring her cat, and at this point I am not planning on having a car next year, so parking's not a big concern.
When we got back, Fred called me. I guess she is quite set on being here next fall, so that's amazingly cool. I'll start looking for apartments sometime after break. I want one near campus, preferable on the west side (closer to most of the departments, but more dangerous for pedestrians, also in closeness to all the sorority/fraternity houses, blech) or on the south side (quieter and more available, but have to walk through graveyard, which is not good at night). The only requirement as to the apartment is that Fred can bring her cat, and at this point I am not planning on having a car next year, so parking's not a big concern.
So after that phone conversation, I hung out for a while and then I went to dinner over at Ryan's house and it was excellent. Next Sunday, instead of eating at Ryan's house, we will be having an amazing Thanksgiving Dinner at HCC for all of the college kids, made by all of our church moms from HCC! I get very excited thinking about it. I did not play Settler's this week though, mostly because I was very tired and have a writing assigment due tomorrow, which I have yet to start on and it is now 11:04 pm. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that, but it should be stated that all homework needs to happen during the week, because I just don't do weekend homework.
Plan: I will skip that class tomorrow at 8am, write it while doing my laundry in the morning, and then turn it in during his office hours on Tuesday am. Or by email. I heart the internet.
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