Lake Retreat

Hey Everybody!

I just woke up from a nap, so I think I'm finally ready to blog my weekend. :) Retreat was great. I had a lot of fun. We played some great games. One of my favorites was "Big Ape." It involves making motions that represent an animal. The motion I invented was for flamingo. You curl up one leg and tuck your arms up into wings. Some of the other highlights were koala (you hug your arms around yourself), Princess Tiger (rar! Don't ask me about the princess part, I don't understand it, you just put up your "claws"), and beached whale (involved a kind of flopping motion that resembled soulful dancing more than anything else. Head leads forward and body follows. Tim never could understand how to do the whale . . . )

A lot of the weekend was spent playing games, but there were also two fires at which I was constantly the loudest singer, an hour of paddle-boating on the lake with Sandra (we had a nice chat), and a very late-night game of Cranium, which I am determined to own someday. It's a very fun game which combines about six others including Charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name that Tune, and Candyland. The only things I did not enjoy this weekend were the cold and the Bucketball. I was almost constantly wearing my navy ear muff, my leather jacket, gloves, and a scarf. The rooms stayed warm though, because they were on the second floor, thank Heaven.

Bucketball on the other hand, really seemed to have no redeeming exceptions. I think I've grown into a person who really really doesn't like conflict. I haven't yelled in about two years. Anytime someone gets angry or upset it gets me worried and uptight because I just want everybody to get along. Bucketball resembles something of a group brawl. I couldn't watch for most of the game. Bucketball has only three rules: 1.) Don't touch the goalie, the chair the goalie is standing on, or the bucket the goalie is holding. 2.) If a bucket is made but the goalie falls off the chair or the bucket is touched, no score is counted. 3.) There are no more rules. People are tackling, grabbing, throwing and carrying each other. I would have been squished to a pulp if I had even considered entering one of the dog piles. I didn't really even enjoy watching the game because it just felt like waiting for an accident to happen (of which there were several during the game.) However, I didn't get wet like they had said we might, so hooray for that!

This Saturday I'm going to go and visit Andy. Hooray! I will have just turned in my biology term paper. It's a report on a journal article. Mine's on actin's role in cell division. :D So, it will be nice to have a relaxing day after just turning in a big project.

-The Aching Adventurer (paddle-boating)

Blog? What's a Blog? I have homework . . .

School kind of sucks the will to blog out of you. At least, school at this point does. There is nothing amazing or funny going on. It's all just homework, tests, and labs. Hoo-way . . .

But, the Moyer Hall retreat is this weekend, and that's exciting! :) I'm just not looking forward to the wetness aspect of it. They've told us to bring as many changes of clothing as possible because we'll be getting wet so often. :-\ Geh. Wet, cold, and dirty. Sounds like a fun time to me. Maybe it will be a bonding experience. Nothing brings you closer to the girl next to you than a need to avoid hypothermia. ;)

My fern Ted isn't doing so well. I believe I may be killing him. I've been experimenting with giving him more or less light, and so far I think he's enjoyin' the more. Poor Ted . . . to have fallen into the hands of a girl with a brown thumb . . . apparently when it comes to ferns, anyway . . .

So . . . my room mate signed up for Roomies, and I didn't. Roomies is a getting-to-know-you type get together where each pair of "roomies" sets their room mate up on a date. She picks a guy for her room mate to go with (often with hints from her roomie) and then when the whole group is set-up and ready to go, the group "meets" the guy their room mate set them up with, and they go out and do something fun. This Roomies' activity is Jet City Improv. This sounds like fun, but I think I would be more than a little uncomfortable going on a "date" with a guy my room mate set me up with. It's supposed to be just friends but eh . . . I'm really not just comfortable with it. You can breathe again now, Andy. ;)

Tonight is Bible study, tomorrow is my USEM midterm. We leave for the trip a bit early.

-The Grumbling Gallavantor

All Better!

Holy moley my comp is flyin'! :D Dell Alerts was actually helpful for once! They sent me a patch that fixed my processing problem! Turns out, installing SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 causes a few small problems, but the patch fixed it! I am so happy! I can watch Strong Bad e-mails on this computer now and listen to music while chatting online!!! :D w00t!

In other news, it's another lazy Tuesday. I don't have much to get done besides a library quiz, my labs for the week, and some copies. :) Then I have work tonight at the circ desk. Always exciting during my shift. ;) Go late-night studiers . . .

I have a pair of pliers I borrowed from one of the guys downstairs, but I have no idea who. I don't really know a lot of the guys and I didn't know the guy who lent me these, and now I don't remember who to return them to. What a conundrum. I'll probably end up just walking up and down their hall sticking my head in every room and asking? Did I borrow these pliers from you?

I watched the movie Timeline last night. It was alright, but I pretty much knew who was going to die from right off the bat. They did have some pretty cool pyrotechnic affects though. :)

Everyone makes fun of me for eating the mini pies they serve in Gwinn in little pie sections. I'm just not getting it. How else are you supposed to eat pie?!?! I don't care that you can fit the whole thing in your mouth at once! That's not how you eat pie!!!

Well, I am now going to turn my mind to mush by watching as many Strong Bad e-mails as I can before lunch. :) Hooray for a fast computer! :D

Excited about electronic advances,

Bonnie

Oopsie-Daisy

I set my alarm for 8:30 this morning. The shuttle for Bethany Community gets here at around 9:50. I woke up this morning at 8:20, afraid my alarm had failed to go off. I checked and it was still set and countin' down, so I decided to go back to sleep. My alarm then went off as planned, and I listened to people being interviewed on the street on which candidating they are voting for for President, and then I got sick of it and hit the snooze button. The snooze alarm went off several minutes later, and I turned off my alarm, ready to get up. I then proceeded to sleep until eleven, and miss church althogether. The moral of the story is: Don't turn off the alarm until you're actually out of bed. That's what snooze is for . . .

Anyway, so I'm kind of bummed about missing church. :-\ I feel like a bum. A very well-rested bum, but a bum none-the-less. The Moyer Retreat is this weekend. Hooray! I'm not really sure what to expect there, but after a late-night conversation with Moog, all I'm picturing are were-lodges. :D (They sprout giant chicken legs every full moon and run around "freeing" mailboxes by pulling them out of the ground and sticking them in chimneys.)

David and I have to try to finish our mouse trap flinger this afternoon. That's not going so well. It's really hard to know how well we're actually doing at flinging a ping-pong ball because our ping-pong ball has been permanently dented. That tends to have a negative effect on the flight of the ball . . . Also, I think we may have worn out our spring from testing it so much. :-\ Ah well. We shall see how it turns out.

The Incompetent Inventor

With Snickers on Top

So today was lab day. That went just fine. Got everything in, done, and ready to finish. :) Labs are getting slightly better. Today our biology professor, Dr. Ridgeway, gave us a tour of the microscopy rooms of SPU's new science building. Totally awesome . . . I was practically drooling. :D Electron scanning microscopes, cryogenic sample preparation, and so much more!

I am going to attend the 9:00 Bible study for 2nd Moyer tonight. It ought to be good. I really like Sandra. She's leading it and she's a sweetheart. I am going to be working in the nursery at Bethany Community Church for my community service hours. :) So I guess that settles it, I'm attending Bethany Community. I don't think I'll do any more church hopping until next year, when I may actually have a mode of transportation for getting to church instead of relying on the shuttle.

The food in Gwinn was remarkably good today. :) I had fish and chips for lunch and a Caesar salad for dinner. Yummy! The fish was really, really good with either lemon or tartar sauce, and the Caesar salads had a short line when I went in, so that's always a plus. And, on top of all this, one of the dessert specials today was Rock 'n' Roll Brownies! These things are awesome! It's chocolate brownie with cream cheese frosting, Snickers crumbled on top, and chocolate sauce swizzled over it all. Yummy! :D It's definately my favorite dessert so far. Okay, now I'm just making myself hungry.

Now I am totally going to steal the sign off tip I gave to Kim.

-The Psychotic Scientist

Sunshine!!!!!

Sunshine! Sunshine!!! SUNSHINE!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYEEEEEE!!!! ~pant, pant, pant~ YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYEEEEEEEE!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D It is sunny in Seattle today!! You guys have no idea how excited this makes me! I'm not cooooooold! There is actual sky today! Not that fake gray stuff! Liquid sunshine, my foot! Give me the real thing any day!

Tonight is also the night that the 2nd Moyer girls will be raiding the 1st Moyer boys, so I'm glad that it hasn't rained yet today. Line tag in wet grass would not be a good situation . . . There'd be more slippin' and slidin' than you'd see with ten jackrabbits in an ice rink!

Since I am disgustingly profficient at procrastinating, I did not end up doing laundry yesterday. Nor have I sent my dad his birthday card! Gah! In fact, I am not even sure where that went . . . exactly . . . um . . . yeah. Bad! Anyway, I'm going to have to do laundry tonight or wear my bathrobe to my labs tomorrow.

Tomorrow is always a day away. Perhaps that's why I never get anything done . . .

-Bonnie

P.S. I slid down the stair rails all the way from the library to Moyer today. :D It was great. They were not wet.

Another Wasted Tuesday

Dang guys, I really need to stop wasting my Tuesdays. It is just too tempting to sit around doing nothing. Ah well, I shall learn soon enough. But there's one thing I know I'm getting done today. Laundry. I am in desperate need of that. But, the dryers on the girls' floors aren't functioning very well at this point, so everyone has been telling me to go down and use the laundry room on the guys' floor. O_o Yeah . . . little weird . . . So, I think I'll take Emma down with me and just read next to the washer for awhile . . .

SPUD (SPU directory) pictures are being taken in the 1.5 (it's halfway between floors 1 and 2) lounge tonight. All the 2nd Moyer girls who want to participate are going to take their pictures with their little record door tags (Those of you who have not seen these door tags may be a little lost. They are just 45' records with our names written on them in silver ink. Our PA Ann is soooo creative. :D) That way it's pretty easy to pick out any girl who lives on 2nd Moyer. ;) We'll see how many of the girls join in. Maybe I'll wear my labcoat for my SPUD picture . . .

Alright, it is time to check my mail so I can see if my passport has arrived and my I9 can be turned in. Paperwork is so much fun . . .

Weekend Edition

I had an absolutely wonderful time with Annie and Andy this weekend. :-D I am thoroughly convinced that Annie would be the best room mate in the world. So hilarious! I am trying to get her to move in with Laura and I here at SPU, but so far, no luck. ;)

Annie and I went to some bookstores while she was here. There was a really cute cat in there whose name was Ophelia. She reminded me of my kitty . . . ~sniff, sniff~ :'( I miss Tiger . . . I was reading Harold and the Purple Crayon and Ophelia came and jumped in my lap. She then proceeded to kneed my stomach and rub her eyes on my book in that annoying, yet adorably endearing way. Ophelia is a thoroughly indoor cat (as she lives in the bookstore) and sucks on the end of her tail (it's true!).

Andy and I did something that was incredibly fun and informative. We played a game of question and answer. Basically, we took turns asking each other the most random questions we could think of. It was a blast and a great way just to talk about things in general or just things in specific. I have decided that this is going to be something I do with all my friends (by e-mail with some, of course). It is just too much fun. It's a little like one of Annie's questionnaires I suppose, only more live action! :-D I'm going to take all my friends here at SPU to a one-on-one lunch and play this game with them to get to know them better.

I have a biology test tomorrow. I am going to make sure to get plenty of sleep, eat breakfast, and probably drink coffee at lunch. :) I hope I do well on it.

Pray for me my friends . . . this next week's weather in Seattle: Rain every day but Wednesday. Koh . . .

I'm so psyched I'm going psycho!

Are you ready for this??? I don't think so!!! Annie visits in approximately six hours!!! w00t! I am sooooo excited! And you know what else?!? Andy visits in . . . a lot more hours because he's comin' on Sunday!!!! Annie is visiting Seattle with Gus, and on Sunday morning we're all going to go to Bethany Community church (where Davey Williams goes) and we're going to see how many West Siders we can fit into a church that isn't West Side! It'll be a new world record!

Today has been an incredibly icky day weather-wise. I haven't seen the sun all day and I am starting to doubt it's existence. By the time this winter is over, I will have become a heliophobic pasty-white creature that hisses and spits when it contacts light. Hmm . . . sounds a little like Gollum, aye?

So I still haven't sent my dad a birthday card. What kind of daughter am I? That's right! A bad one! It's still sitting on my desk, half-drawn. I WILL FINISH it tonight, stick a cute Disney sticker on it, and put it in the mailbox by tomorrow!!!

Okay, so now I am going to take out all the bobby pins I put in my hair this morning. It was curly today. Let's just say I got a little carried away with twisting it last night and well, one thing led to another . . . anyway.

I'm lookin' forward to Moyer Hall retreat (October 29-31) but I'll need a sleeping bag. Hint, hint parents. ;)

Complex

I should really write something about what's going on in my life here . . . yeah . . . I'll get right on that. ;) I have not been blogging recently. (Recently as in . . . today.) So, pull up a chair, er- I guess you're probably already sitting . . . and listen, er- read my tale. I never can get those intros right . . . dang blast it all . . .

So I've been doin' pretty good. Although today, I discovered I have a personality complex. Yes! That's what I said, a personality complex. My deep, philosophical musings brought me to this realization shortly after I had completed lunch in the cafeteria known as Gwinn. Yes, that's right, it's Gwinn with two n's. I know. Shocking. I had been lunching with my professor and three other students. Two of these students are apparently from the sub-species chattius talkaloticus because they they carried most of the conversation. Do not mistake me, it was very pleasant, I am just not used to listening for most of the course of a meal. Well, it was after this pleasant luncheon while I was sitting in class waiting for biology to begin that I began to notice I was exhibiting some strange behaviors. Yes, strange even for me. I was extremely fidgety. I mean extremely! I could not stop moving! On top of this, a scream seemed caught in my throat and it was doing it's darndest to escape me right as I sat there in the third row! Now, it was not a frustrated scream or a scared scream or even an annoyed or exasperated scream. Just a very loud scream. I suddnely felt this incredible urge simply to make a very loud noise. And then it hit me! I had not done enough talking! Being quiet all through lunch had driven me to the edge! So, I turned to my right and immediately struck up a conversation with my friend Christy, and all was well once again. But now I know my limits. I most obviously have a specific word quota that I am required to meet every day. I believe this may be the very root cause as to why I choose quiet/semi-quiet friends! I am a psychopath who chooses quiet persons as my companions so that I can hear my own voice!!! How crazy does that make me?!?!? Crazy as an armadillo wearing pants or crazy as Bill Nye the science guy flunking chemistry, 'cause that'd be just crazy!

What will I discover when I have lunch tomorrow with two girls (one of whom is one of the aforementioned chattius talkaloticus) and my USEM mentor??? That I have a problem with people who blink too much? That I obsess over toenails??? That I have multiple personalities based on the characters of Gilligan's Island?!?!?!! Aaaah! . . . Well, I suppose only time will tell. In the mean time, I sincerely hope I am not this weird when I wake up. I am thoroughly impressed with anyone who manages to scramble their way through that monster of a paragraph. ;) Bon voyage!

This Tuesday has been terrible and terrific at the same time. (Why can those two words have the same root and mean opposite things?) It's been terrific because I've done nothing, and it's been terrible because I've done nothing. I've lazed around all morning. Lucky for me, there's only one small assignment due tomorrow, but still!! Tuesdays are homework days! I have work at three, so I should be able to finish at least a little bit of homework before tomorrow.

I am also intending to do laundry fairly soon. I have filled up my hamper. Oh, by the way dad, I'm almost done drawing your card. :D It should be in the mail by tomorrow. Speaking of mail, I have to check my mailbox. And get quarters for laundry. And buy a three-ring binder. Dang. Theres's a lot to do before Thrusday.

Okay well, it's time to get some assignments done. I have labs that have to be finished by Thursday. Two labs a week doesn't seem like too much of a workload, it's just confusing trying to keep track of whose logbook requirements are whose. Grr . . . they seriously need to work out a standardized system . . . I keep having to check the syllabi. (heh . . . syllabi . . . )

Man! Okay, time to force myself to start my USEM homework. Th-th-th-th-th-that's all folks!

An Exception to the Suckiness of Monday

Blogging, blogging, over the network seas! Yo-ho! It is most definately a pirate-type day. I wish I could use my panda emoticons on this blog, because I have a very cute pirate version. :D I have no classes tomorrow which means it is a day of intermediate homework and relaxation. Tuesdays are definately one of my best days of the week. Weekends aren't usually too bad either. :)

Well, my throat is still a bit . . . sketchy, but it is feeling better than yesterday. :) Oh, and parents? I forgot . . . I already applied for a credit card and it'll be on it's way in the mail to you guys within ten days. (One of the items of mail you guys sent to me informed me of this.) So I have a credit card, but I will not use it for at least the first quarter. :)

I don't have much to post on because I am too excited to be coherent. Mondays are one of the best nights of the week for me (no class on Tuesday!) So, I will post later if anything of great portent arises. (Whoa, slipped into a little bit of weirdness there at the end . . . )

Stalking Me

Ever get the feeling that something is sneaking up on you? Like eyes are watching you? Like someone's there but you just can't see them?!?! Well I'm totally feeling that feeling, except not. There is a sickness sneaking up on me, not a person. A bacterium is stalking my throat. (Bacterium is the singular of bacteria, but I suppose that in order for me to be feeling any effects, there'd have to be quite a few bacteria . . . eh, give me a break, I'm tired.) The sickness is not yet bad, so the bacterium has not yet chosen to pounce, but I'm waiting for the moment it does. I'm hoping that moment never does come because Laura had a sore throat this morning as well and has felt fine since. That means the score is currently at Laura's immune system 1, Bonnie's immune system 0, bacteria, 1,000 throat cells burst and counting . . .

I think my fern Ted is going to be dead by the end of first quarter. I have been remembering to water him and he still has some of his new growth, but he has been dropping leaves. Maybe he's just throwing a tantrum.

I am going to go to bed early tonight. Hopefully by 9:30. I'm just going to have Laura print out my homwork, brush my teeth, wash my contacts, and roll into bed. Oh wait, I'm just going to have Laura print out my homework, not brush my teeth and wash my contacts like that sentence sounded like. Heh. Yeah, definately getting sick. I was getting emotional during a Discovery Channel special on Space Ship One. That's always a sign of me getting sick . . . semi-crying for no reason. I didn't actually cry because I yelled at myself for being weird, but it was a close call. And there wasn't even anything to cry about. I think I was just being emotional in general. I'm dangerous when I'm sick. Truly dangerous.

Goin' to class tomorrow-
Bonnie

Slow Day

Well, what started out as a slow day has remained a slow day. I'm going to have to do laundry tomorrow because the washers down here have lines to Tuskaloosa (And you know that has to be far away, since I don't even know where it is).

I have homework to do that I am trying to avoid. I am trying to avoid it because it is my arch enemy, busy work! My USEM is getting into a section on time management and responsibility and goal-making, which, although a very good thing to learn about, makes for some very boring and time-consuming homework. :-
I was planning on walking to the park today, but it is windy and cloudy and just generally yucky outside. :( Oh well. Maybe Sunday will be better, but Sunday is also going to be a day of homework, so the park may just have to be put off until next weekend or Tuesday.

I don't feel like going out tonight. I will probably try to get some of that homework I've been putting off done. I'll probably have something more interesting to talk about tomorrow. I'm going to try to catch the shuttle to Bethany Community Church. (Yay! Bethany!)

Bye!

My Umbrella Makes Me Feel Cool

My umbrella makes me feel cool. I don't have to run or hold my guitar over my head when it's raining like I've seen other people doing. :D

So I totally didn't pass a quiz that we had to get 8 out of 10 on because I supposedly spelled "cloric acid" incorrectly because I typed in "chloric acid" which is, in fact, the correct way to spell it. (I looked it up after the test.) Apparently, the night class chemistry professor who made this test doesn't know how to spell chemical formula names. This means that I got the question wrong because I was right. Grr . . . stupid online quizzes.

Anyway, I don't have much to tell. I have a rather large homework load for this weekend. :-\ Bummer. I hope to walk or ride my bike down to a park that's fairly close to SPU. For reconnoitering purposes, you know. I want to see if they have swings. :D

I was really struggling to stay awake in biology today. It was a review from chemistry two years ago. Now, I know most of this class will be review because I took A.P. biology, but I mean, come on! He keeps reiterating that he'll be speeding up the lecture soon, without actually gaining any velocity! Oh well. I guess we're just going more in depth this time. ;) We'll be going over in an entire year what we went over in two trimesters in West Valley.

I have discovered that Fred Meyer rip-off "generic" Cinnamon Toast Crunch is not a very good mimic of the actual Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It's fine, but it's nowhere near the yummy goodness of the real thing.

What I caught of Fusion was fun. :) I got out of my lab at 6:45 so I missed my floor's skit but I had seen them practice enough that that did not make me sad. The other ones I saw were pretty good though. :) The guys were typical guys with fish slapping and shirt ripping, and the girls were typical girls with dance routines and pink clothing. I missed the pirates and the vikings though (I saw some of them walking around in costume) and that was disappointing. The activities afterward were fun, if a little lukewarm, and the prayer walk was mostly taken seriously.

That's all folks!

Bonnie

Half-a-post

So I totally didn't post yesterday and I'm sure this grossly disappoints you all. ;) It was a very busy day. I got up at 8:30 and started homework. I was doing homework for the next six hours. It was great stuff. :-P I have never seen so many nomenclature problems before in my life! Which reminds me, I've got to take a quiz on nomenclature online, and I have work tonight, so I better do it now. I'll post later when there's nothing urgent pressing. :)

The Sheer Cuteness

I am headed out to buy two composition notebooks, the Everyday Writer (a book I didn't know I needed. Yes, another one.), goggles, and hopefully, that's it for the buying for awhile because I do not want to be completely broke before fall quarter is even halfway over.

I have yet to find a church that I think I will regularly attend. This Sunday was very nice, and I thoroughly enjoyed the worship, but I don't think it's the size of church I'm looking for. (It's very small.) I want to go to a church that has a nursery so that I can fulfill my community service hours. I hope I can figure out how to catch the Bethany Community shuttle by next Sunday. I want to check it out. A good pastor seems to be the hardest thing to find. A lot of these guys seem great. They're really nice and have a growing relationship in the Lord, but they're just . . . not teachers. :-\ I think I'm realizing just what a special leaders we have a West Side.

This is, quite possibly the cutest four panels of comic that I have ever beheld. Only those people capable of handling cuteness levels above 10,000 spm (squeals per minute) should risk viewing it. Oh, and it's pretty funny too. :D

http://www.countyoursheep.com/d/20041004.html

Mad Librarian

My accomplishments are increasing! ;) Now, not only am I well on my way to becoming a mad scientist, I am also well on my way to becoming a professional librarian! My training tonight at ILL was from 3:30 to 7:00. Just a bit longer than I thought . . . but good nonetheless. I think the girl who was training me didn't quite know what to do with me at first, but toward the end of our session she found that I was capable of stapling, filing, etc. and so allowed me to participate in the training activitis. ;) I'm going back at 7:55 for my first session at the circulation desk. Overall, a lot longer night than I had anticipated, but not in a bad way. :)

It rained for the first time since I've been here . . . so depressing . . . :( But, on the bright side, I'll get to use my spiffy new umbrella on the way back. :D Yes, I'm a dork. I won't be getting back until 11:10 pm, but I'm on caffeine at the moment (part of a nutritious dinner) and won't have any problem staying awake. Wish me luck! Again!

I bought a book for my USEM today. I am disliking it already. It is a very boring book on engineering. It keeps saying things like "As an engineering student, you-" to which I reply in my head, "I am NOT an engineering student!!!" Anyway, I have classes again tomorrow and they'll all be lectures so I'll probably get some coffee in the morning or some such. Biology is easy to stay awake in, and chemistry is alright as long as I can hear the professor, and even my USEM is alright because my professor is funny and intelligent, but not much will keep you awake if you're working on four hours sleep. :) Well, my computer is telling me to update, update what I don't know but I'll take its advice anyway. I'm sure it knows better what it's doing than I do.

Just remember, "Portugal is Spain's Canada."

Mad Scientist

I am within inches of being formally recognized as a mad scientist. :D I have my lab coat!!! I've officially scared everyone on my floor by wearing my labcoat around for about 20 minutes. Laura took a picture of me with her digital camera and has promised to put it up on her blog, if you want to check it out by using the link to her page. ;) All I lack now are the uber-dorky goggles. You know, the plastic ones that leave those great raccon-like lines on your face where they press aournd your eyes? Yeah, those. I brought a pair of goggles with me from Hanford, but they are not "splash-proof" sadly enough. I left my hard hat in my cubicle sadly enough . . . :-
I did it! I actually sent a letter to Annie! Shock and awe! My roomie Laura went with me to the post office. She was mailing some leters too. Mine needed extra postage because it was a bit too heavy. :-/ :) And, being the dork I am, upon receiving the stamps I promptly exclaimed, "Oh! They're the lick kind!" and followed through with the necessary action. It was then that Laura piped up, "No they're not!" I had just observed by it's lack of stickiness that it was indeed, a sticker stamp and stated something intelligent along the lines of, "Oh, so it's not." Laura then proceeded to laugh quite heartily at me like the uber-geek I am. :) It was the influence of the lab coat I swear. ;) You're next on the letter list Moog!

I start my trainging for Inter-Library Loan in less than half-an-hour. :-\ I'm a bit nervous. I hope I do alright. I also received an e-mail from Shelley telling me she was desperate for someone to man the circualtion desk from 7:55 to 11:10 pm on Tuesday nights, so I'll be working there too.

Wish me luck!

Blob Blog! (Too bad my name's not Bob . . . )

My 90 second speech for USEM today was . . . interesting. I think I may have mistimed myself during my practices, but it worked out okay. I cut out some stuff on the fly and was only a few seconds over time. :) We also ran out of class time (we actually went a little bit over) so I guess we get an extension on choosing our term paper subjects for that class.

My room mate Laura cracks me up. :) I always end up flinging the teddy bears on my bed onto the floor in my sleep, so, Laura threatened to one day set him up in my chair at my laptop as if he were typing. Today, she followed through with that threat. It made me laugh out loud to see little Crockett (bad name, good bear) propped up at my desk when I got up this morning. Laura was at class, so I decided to further the prank. I took Crockett over to Laura's desk and set him up with Laura's phone to his ear and his paw to the phone. :D When I got back from my chemistry class, Laura had moved Crockett once again and this time, her stuffed dog had joined him. They were both wearing headphones that were "connected" to a walkman. When I observed this posture (the best one, I think) Laura was out yet agian, so I set the two stuffed animals up as if they were reading my chemistry book. :) A very goofy, very fun prank.

Fusion is this Thursday. It's an activity designed to "fuse" together floors. Each floor will do a skit and then participate in an activity. I won't be able to be in the skit because I have two evening labs that night, but luckily, I'll be able to take part in the activity. :) I think it'll be fun.

Laura and I now have a huge collection of magnetic words posted on our doorframe (We just learned that it was magnetic.) I have already had some fun with them. Some of my favorite words available for use are "blob", um . . . well, I actually don't remember any others because I
really only thought "blob" was a hilarious word to have in a magnetic word set. :D

Training tomorrow at 3:30 for ILL and a possiblity of hours at the circulation desk! We'll see if I take Shelley up on her kind offer . . . :-/

In closing,
Vivan las spaghettios!

I have discovered Aaron's blog!

Ha ha ha! In spite of his attempts to hide it, I have unearthed Aaron's blog! Mua ha ha ha! He now has a link over to the right underneath my profile along with all my other blogging friends thanks to my techie room mate Laura. ;)

Lunch time is coming up. They don't serve dinner on Sunday nights so it's gonna be a Spaghettios or eat-out type night for me. :)

I have now spread out into the vacuum left by Anita. My mail is on her desk and my purse is in her drawer. That's as far as I'm willing to go right now as we don't know if/when we will be acquiring a new room mate.

Mmmk! I can't think of anything new to say since my last post . . . I have blog links!

Sunday . . . mmmm . . . sundaes . . .

Hey everybody-

Today is Sunday and thus the last day to get homework done. I still have an experiment to perform and a 90 second presentation to finish. I swear I've learned more about Teflon than I ever wanted to know . . .

I've been going through the difficult task of selecting a topic for my invention term paper. (I've already decided not to do the other of option of an inventor because that's boring.) It's a tough choice. I can't decide between duct tape or crayons, the internet (not invented by Al Gore) or Jell-O, the microwave oven or the Pong video game, the remote control or the game Scrabble. I can't pick just one! These topics are like the ultimate Lay's potato chips of term paper subjects! Aaaaah! Well, that having been said I will probably pick none of those and go with something boring and sensical like . . . the assembly line. :-\ Ah well, such is life.

Church today will consist of an evening service at six at a church called West Side (What a coincidence!) It is Laura's brother's church and I'm looking forward to going. :)

Sooo . . . Aaron apparently has a blog now because his name shows up on comments. Aaron, now that you have one, you should update it and tell us all what the URL is! :D Join the group!

I don't have much more to say. I have been discovering more foods to avoid in the cafeteria, but none of them so far have brought to mind anything humorous. I think I may have temporarily broken my food humor, much to the delight of all. ;)

I have discovered something. Guys are generally better at Egyptian War than girls. I can beat any girl I've ever played, but guys are more difficult. The only person to ever beat me was a guy (The guy who taught me, in fact, unless you've beat me before Moog. I don't know, I can't remember. Have you?) I was playing in a two-girl two-guy game the other day, and the girl was the first person to get out, followed by the first guy who was soon back in again because of his disgustingly fast slapping skills, followed by the second guy who left the table and did not slap back in. So, it was me and this other guy and I was only getting slightly lower than every other slap. It was sad. We didn't finish the game because it was time for dinner, so we set our cards aside. Someone apparently came along and played a game while we were gone though, because the cards were in one pile when I came back. However, I think it would be fairly safe to say that I would have gotten my butt kicked by this guy.

I watched SNL last night and saw the presidential debate spoof. Two things were missing. Will Ferrel and the memory of the actual debate. (I didn't get to watch it because I was at class.) It was funny, but not as funny as it could have been if these two factors had been present.

Alright, it's time to start homeworking. As Laura would say, "ttfn!"

Pants on Fire . . .

Wow, okay, so I lied quite a bit last night. First off, everyone went to Alkai, not Enumclaw, and secondly, I only posted twice yesterday, not three times. So embarrassing . . .

So . . . Mt. St. Helens er, "burped" the other day. Very exciting. :) My room mate and I had to go downstairs to the lounge just to find a TV that we could watch it on. Everyone else was watching movies or TV stations not showing the eruption, that's how big of a deal this was to all these college students. ;)

I have so much to do I'm feeling overwhelmed. It is not good when I get overwhelmed. My first instinct is to give up doing anything rather than doing everything. A very bad thing especially when it comes to cleaning rooms (mine is still mostly organized, thank heaven).

I know everyone is excited about the return of the panda smileys to MSN messenger (not, unfortunately, to AIM), but there is something even more exciting. There is now a third copy cat to add to the list! Don't worry, I won't leave you in suspense by putting this revelation off to the last line of this blog, talking until the very end and just giving you the actual news as a side note, talking about trivial matters up until then, and driving you crazy. Nope. Definately won't do that.

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It's Andy!

P.S. I have no way to post links permanently as of yet, so here's a temp address to Andy's blog: www.andyspeaks.blogspot.com :D

The Evening

Well, the original plan was for Laura and I to stay up until all hours of the evening tonight because Anita who was an early-retirer, (retiree?) isn't here anymore. But now, I'm not so sure that's going to happen. I was walking around the Seattle Center with a couple of friends from about 7:30 to 9:00, but then we came back so I could catch Andy's phone call. And everyone left for various activities ranging from the beach at Enumclaw? (not sure on location) to the mysterious "bonfire" that I have yet to learn a location for at around 10:00 while I was still on the phone with Andy. (Run-on sentence!) So now, sitting here in my dorm in the relative warmth and quiet with nothing to do, bed seems rather friendly. Ah well, I will see if I can hold out until Laura gets back.

I have much to do this weekend. Hopefully I will get it all done. I have to perform a scientific method "lab", purchase a book for my USEM, do the post-lab for my chemistry, pick a topic for my USEM term paper, bring my laptop down to the CIS help desk and see if they can give me a diagnostic, and work out my thirty minute speech on the article I read about Teflon. (I'm sure that's all in my Palm Pilot. Fairly certain anyway . . . )

I have now officially finished off my bag of Cheetos. It's amazing how many Cheetos one person can eat when that one person is in a dorm. Well, I suppose my roomies helped . . . :) But still . . .

I'll blog more when I have more to talk about. :) Like, tomorrow maybe. I think I may have blogged three times today! Woo-hoo! That has to be a new record. ;)

Goodnight,
Bonnie

Job!!!!!!!!!

I have a job!!!!!!!! It's with the inter-library loan service, and it's only nine hours for now, but Moog says that's a good amount of time and I can always get more hours later at the circulation desk. My job is taking care of the book orders that come in from other colleges like WSU or UW and taking them out of the packaging or downloading and printing them as the case may be, and getting them to the shelf for student pick-up. :) It has flexible hours and sounds like it'll be fun. I'm getting trained next Tuesday and probably starting next Wednesday. When the job goes into full swing I'll be working Monday, Wednesday, Friday in the late afternoon for three hours each day. I'm very glad I found a job. :D

We are having fun posting messages in our windows to the people who live in the room across the way. :) Our sign reading "Hey Michelle and Ashley" is a work of art, if I do say so myself. ;) There is already a quite lovely sign in their window saying "Hey Laura and Bonnie!" :D

Ice cream tonight in the lobby at seven. I am very excited about this. Especially since the cafeteria offers only the cheap substitute of ice cream, frozen yogurt. I have become convinced that frozen yogurt can really only be good when it is fruit-flavored, like actual yogurt is. ;)

Well, the job was pretty much the only news I had. I hope you read my blog soon parents, because I'm too lazy to write an e-mail! ;)

Bonnie