I'm too lazy to come up with a witty title...

Soo, for all zero of you who read this (with the possible exception of my 2 followers) life's going well. I spent a week at the lake recently. It was really nice to chill. I've been working every day... Nothing exciting there... They are completely screwing up Woods Quad, though. It kind'a pisses me off. My friend Allegra turned 21 last weekend, so we went to New Orleans. I was really looking forward to going because I hadn't been since senior year for our debate trip, but things didn't go according to plan... at all. Oh well...

I'm off to North Carolina next Wednesday! Yay! Can't wait to see Nick and Brittany.

I had mentioned that my Danish friend, Lars, had invited me to travel with him and Nicolaj, my other Danish friend, to Rome in July. Well, that changed to Alanya, Turkey. And then it changed Aarhus, Denmark in December. Hopefully it'll work out. I haven't seen them or Anne, my twin/other Danish friend, in quite some time.

That's it. My life is pretty boring.

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

So... hi. How ya been? It's been a few months since I posted--not that anyone actually reads this. Where to begin...?
The semester ended rather abruptly when a huge tornado plowed through the fine city of Tuscaloosa. Luckily, I live in an affected area, but have no damage. So not only do I get to see (well, not see) my destroyed neighborhood, but also feel terrible that my house is okay. At least now you can see the train way in advance.. you know, in case you need to take a detour. But really though, I was lucky--though, I can't say the same for the rest of the city... or what's left anyway. So that happened... Yeah. My friends and I were working in my neighborhood to help folks around there.
Greece was canceled. Sucks, but it's whatevs. We'll go next year. I've been working in the office for a few weeks now. I'm working here full time this summer. Yay! I've been prepping for RSSA things next year. Right now, I'm working on the new bulletin boards.
My friend Markus and I are working out every morning at 6:00am. We started last week. It's been nice. Feelin' good, too! We're determined to get in shape.
Next month I'll be off to visit Nick and Brittany in North Carolina! :)
I was talking to my friend from Denmark about a possible trip to Rome. That'd be awesome. We shall see. My friend from Greece wanted in on it, too. It just may happen.
I do sincerely hope you all did or didn't make it through the rapture according to your position on the issue. I'm glad to say I'm still here and kicking... for now. Haa. Maybe I'll be better about doing this. No promises, though.

You can't fix stupid.

It's true. You can't, but the title has nothing to do with the blog. I am watching Ron White--guilty pleasure--and he said that. I completely agree.

So here I am... procrastinating, but I'm about to get back to work. I needed a mental break. I have a midterm in Ancient Egypt tomorrow. It sucks. It will be awful... Whatever.

Besides that class, everything is going really well. I mean, I have a TON of reading, but it's whatevs. It's that time of year, though. Midterms, papers, papers, papers and papers are kicking off... I'm ready for Spring Break.

With Elizabeth's recent change of plans, it'll just be Allegra and I at the beach for the week. I'm super pumped about it. :)) E is going to have a blast in France. I'm pretty jealous. Howeverrr, I'm actually going to Greece this summer right at the end of school. Everything was finalized today, so it still seems crazy. It hasn't sunk in yet. There will be six of us: four students and two profs. One I've mentioned in previous posts, Merinda, and also McCutcheon. They're really awesome. I'm rather looking forward to the trip. I'm not really sure what to expect because it'll be very different from my trip to Italy. We shall see.

So I've been working with the REL dept. at school. I no longer work at Bryant--thank god. I love working with REL. It makes me so happy. We're actually headed to the AAR Conference this weekend. That'll be a lot of fun!

Justin was in town today trying to recruit staff to work at camp. Some people were actually interested... we'll see how that plays out... We met a lady whose daughter married a guy who used to be a counselor at camp. Small world...

Okay, obviously I really don't have anything to talk about because I'm getting bored. So, yeah.

Maybe I'll remember to blog again soon. Don't get your hopes up...

"It's like Star Trek."

Soo, here I am at work again. I kinda freaked out when my alarm went off this morning. I didn't know what was going on! I hate it when that happens.

Last week finally ended. Elizabeth, Allegra and I hung out all weekend. We had a lot of fun! The weather ended up being really nice! :) So we took the dogs to the park so they could get some exercise. However, the weekend ended too soon. We also had the trial run of ALMUN. That went well.

This weekend is the weekend before ALMUN. So close now... We'll have a lot going on. Allegra's friend Cameron is coming up this weekend! She's super nice! We're all pretty excited. Also, Allegra, Elizabeth, (Cameron, possibly) and I are going to the beach for a few days over spring break. Then we're going to visit our friend Cyndy at SCAD for a while. :) I'm excited.

School is school. Nothing exciting. Gender Theory class was really fun this week. We started talking about how, when we look at ourselves, what do we see first: our race or our gender? How does that determine how you identify yourself, etc. It was funny. Of course any time anyone says anything, we always jump in with, "Yeah, well, what do you mean by that?" One guy said he was an extreme man; he's into hiking and everything. I was like, "What's that supposed to mean? I like hiking. Does that make me an extreme man?" It's really entertaining. We cut up a lot.

Bible class was really amusing yesterday. We're going through Genesis right now. We were talking about how Jacob left after getting his brother's birthright and then deceiving Isaac into thinking that he was Esau to get the blessing. Then Jacob goes to Laban, etc. Well, my prof was trying to get us to talk so he said, "Why do you think he'd want to have sons in particular? He's an alien there. Everyone is a potential threat--it's like Star Trek." It made me laugh. At one point someone said the only logical explanation for the Angel, who was fighting Jacob, leaving at dawn was that he was really a vampire. (Don't worry, he wasn't serious or trying to be sacrilegious. Gotta lighten the mood sometimes.) Then we were looking at some artwork about Joseph's story, and usually Joseph is depicted wearing gold/yellow clothing. We were trying to follow the story line in the painting, but couldn't quite find the beginning or end, so our prof said to "Follow the golden-clad man. It's like the Wizard of Oz." At different points in time Superman and Lawrence of Arabia came up. Needless to say, it was an interesting class.

Today we have a guest speaker coming to talk to the REL Dept. Should be exciting. Then work and class, class and work, work and class and work.

I really want to go to bed right now.

I guess I'll go grade some quizzes. Deuces.

"Get ready to give me some more of that bite!"

Well...
So I'm at work again. Yes, I have the worst hours--I know. I was very tempted not to come to work this morning. My shifts are from 2-7am twice a week. Normally, I go to bed around 7:30ish, but Elizabeth, Allegra and I went to see Black Swan last night. I enjoyed it, but it was strange. I found it rather fascinating, but it's left me in an altered state of being. I'm not so sure how I feel about it, but I liked it. I'd love to see it again. However, it caused me to have very strange dreams last night... the whole 2 hours that I slept. Regardless, it was a good movie. Go see it. I really want to see The King's Speech in the near future, but I don't know if I'll have the time.

Normally I don't see anyone at two in the morning here at Bryant Hall, but everyone seems to be up and about in the wee hours of this Friday morning. Occasionally there's a party or something, but this is just people coming and going. Usually they'd be drunk, but these guys are completely sober. I'm a bit confused...

Allegra, Elizabeth and I have started working out Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Thus far (two weeks) we've done well, so I hope we can maintain this. We all really want to get in shape. Allegra has ordered a Weight Watchers cookbook, so we're all excited to jump into that.

In my last post I talked about my troubles with e-learning... Well, after re-entering the grades the next day, I realized I put them in the wrong column! No! Sooo.... I had to do all 150 of them again. Ugh. I have every name on that roster memorized. -sigh- Apparently Merinda or Chris (the prof I'm helping) told the Chair of the department/my Bible as Literature prof that I've been doing good work. :) Yay! That made me happy!

I can't say I'm too terribly fond of my lack of free time. Seems I live to sleep on the weekend. It's sad, really. But with ALMUN 2011 just around the corner, weekends are busy, too. With one thing after another, I don't know where the time goes. I hardly remember last semester, for it passed in the blink of an eye.

So I was sitting in my Shakespeare class the other day... We're reading Romeo and Juliet. :) Yay! But my prof, who's really amazing, said "Hold up. Wait a minute..." And I couldn't help myself, so I said aloud, "Let me put some kush up in it." Yikes! Luckily no one really heard me. My friend Alfred from LAMP told me that his english prof (his eng class is before mine) said, "My name is Carrie..." and he started singing aloud, "and I'm so very..." I don't know. Maybe it's a weird LAMPer thing. I know everyone sang in the halls there. LAMPers are definitely a different breed of people... We're all just a little weird, to put it nicely.

I think I'll wrap up with this: I don't know if y'all have ever played angry birds--it's pretty much the best game ever. No, seriously. Well, Allegra and I wanted to play it, but they don't have it on the internet. Rather they have a ghetto, rip-off medieval version called Crash the Castle. It's actually pretty fun. I recommend it if you, like I, have to spend countless hours sitting at a desk.

Buona giornata, ragazzi.

This should be interesting...

So I've had to do blogs for my religion classes. I'm not a huge fan of the "blog," but here I am. I guess I thought I'd see how this works out. I don't really understand it--I just don't see why anyone would want to hear me ramble about my life... there's nothing really exciting in it. But alas, I shall try this. It could be fun, right? Here goes...

Soo, the semester's started off well enough, I suppose. Staying busy that's for sure. I'm working 20 hours on top of my 15 hours of classes. I have an endless reading list (for my classes and pleasure reading). One of my jobs is being a TA in the large enrollment Intro to Religious Studies class. So far it's pretty cool. I got my first set of papers to grade. No big deal, but using the e-learning system is another story... I went to post all of the grades, but I took a break for dinner at some point. Afterward, I turned on my recording of Pretty Little Liars (that show is strangely addicting) and went back to posting grades. Well, during my dinner break, e-learning timed out, so all of the grades I posted weren't actually posted. -sigh- I'll do it again this afternoon in the office. When I'm not in the actual class, I work in the office. Right now I don't do much. None of the profs really ask for my help because most of them are gone by the time I start, so I've really become Merinda's personal secretary. Merinda is my prof/advisor. She's pretty awesome!

The other evening the Religious Studies Student Association (RSSA) went out to dinner at Mellow Mushroom. We had a fabulous time. It was great, really.

Okay, I really did have a good time. I'm not sure what happened here. Merinda seems to be enjoying the food, though. Haa.

Chesley and Quint goofing off. Then Quint put on the glasses and we discussed what it meant to be a "real man." 

There we go! Everyone is paying attention. We ended up having around 16 RSSAers. Good times. :)

Classes are going well, I think. I'm taking Ancient Egypt to the Near East, Gender Theory and Religion, Shakespeare, Tudors and the English Bible as Literature. Shakespeare class is probably my fav. Obviously. I'm only kind of obsessed with Shakespeare. The Tudors class is awesome, but it's my favorite time period in Britain soo..... Everything is really awesome though.

Elizabeth and Allegra (two of my best friends) both agree that this semester is just too busy. We literally live for the weekend. Our weekends consist of sleep, hanging out at Allegra's place or our house, etc. Nothing too exhausting because we are too tired to do anything. We just want the break. Regardless, I'm having an awesome time.

ALMUN 2011 is fast approaching. It's the weekend before Valentine's Day. Needless to say, it's getting a bit more stressful. Oh well. It'll be a great conference. We'll have 150 high-schoolers this year--that's double what we had last year! Yay!

Okay. Enough for now. This 2-7am shift is going to be the death of me. Off to find something that will hold my attention!