Things that have happened

1. Geoff's birthday party: We dressed up in 50's clothes (well as close as we could come) and went down to the State Street Diner and we all had yummy food and milkshakes. I got raspberry pancakes, scrambled eggs and a chocolate milkshake. Yummmm
2. Service Learning: For the last four Saturdays I've been going down to Titus Towers (housing community for older people) for my Introduction to Aging Studies class. The first time we went was kind of weird and new but we got little slips of paper with a discussion topic on it (i.e. mine was "Talk about a fist date you had") and wen went around the room to different residents and talked to them. I heard a lot of really interesting stories and shared some experiences of my own. We got to know the residents, the people in my class, and the people in the other section of my teacher's class that were doing the service learning too. It was really cool. The next session we planted flowers, seeds, and bulbs. I helped my Titus resident Betty plant tomato seeds and we also got a iris bulb for her apartment. It was really funny because she kept saying she didn't want to touch the soil because it was dirty. But she was really nice- she told us how excited she was to have gone to Arizona last week to see her new (and first) grandson. The next session we played games. I played with a resident named Hattie (I love this woman- the first session she insisted we needed a dance party- more specifically a "booty shaking contest") and she taught us a card game. After we went on a tour around Titus made by a resident named Jimmy, I played Uno with two other Titus residents Ruth and Emma, along with Marcos and Pooja (who are in my Aging class). The last session was this weekend- we had of course a booty shaking contest and we had some people doing karaoke. I almost did but I chickened out at the last minute. Although I did indeed shake my booty. And I also brought my sketchbook to draw in but I ended up just talking. But when I brought it out at the end, I got a lot of people surrounding my table complementing my art skills. It was really nice.
3. Bonding. The Ithaca family has been doing some shenanigans indeed. On top of hanging out, watching movies, and playing some silly games like poker where we bet things like our knowledge of something or a talent of some sort, to throwing hard boiled eggs down a hill and seeing whose could make it to the bottom (no one-- me and Joe got pretty close) the fam has been pretty tight. Before Easter we all (well, except for Christina because she went home) went to Wegmans and got breads, cheeses, fruit, veggies,cold cuts, Morning Star stuff for me, basil, and garlic. On Easter we made a feast of all our yummy foods and it was definitely the best meal we all had in awhile. After we ate, we dyed eggs and decided we all needed to work on respective projects and papers so we had a study party in the library.
4. Scheduling. We just signed up with classes for next year and I got everything I wanted- but I need to get an override form from the dean to take another Intro to Poetry class. The whole thing was really frustrating because I had to email like 4 people to find out what the registration error meant on homerconnect when finally someone at the resister's office had the answer for me. And then more emailing to get the right person to override the form for me and to the teacher to let him know I was trying to the class. All in all it worked out and I'll get in the class on Monday but it was rather annoying and my inbox is now filled with messages about scheduling. I'm also attempting to learn American Sign Language which is somehow limited to Speech and Pathology majors/ minors but I emailed the teacher to see if I can still get in and I'm waiting for a reply.
So my schedule is as follows:
MWF
Intro to Poetry
Medieval Literature
Math for Decision Making
American Sign Language (actually only MW)
TR
Academic Writing I
Education and Society
So yah, soild scedule. I might die a little from overload of classes but if it's a problem I'll drop something. I think I'll be ok though because I've been good at getting things done on time and still have free time. So I might up the hours of work time.
4. Work? I may have a mail room job (aka sorting, giving out packages, etc) for next year the lady emailed me and asked when it would be a good time to do an interview so I told her Tuesday this up coming week. So waiting to hear more but I would like the money. And I can always do work when I'm waiting around for people to come. We'll see.
Also: I'm on the street team of my favoritest site ever: ModCloth
This means that I get to leave feedback and spread the word of the awesomness of the site. Which shouldn't be hard because I've gotten a few friends here really addicted to it too. I love their clothes. I wish I had enough money to buy all their stuff I like. I do own a jacket and a pair of boots from their store though. I love them so :)
5. WARMTH?! It's been sunny and 60's for the past 3 days. On Friday we sat by the fountains (which are now working!!) and we read and talked and watched the fountain. It was a good time. Until I realized I was all sunburned. My skin wasn't used to all the sunny goodness.
6. TWO WEEKS LEFT. ACCCKKK. I have some papers to do, things to study for, lots of reading, but overall I feel pretty good about my finals. Well I'll probably be stressing out next week but we have a take-home final for American Literture which should be ok, Stars final should be fine if I study well, Media Literacy final I don't have to take if I'm ok with my final score at the end so if I do well on the project we're working on now in groups I think it will be just dandy. I'm not sure what we have for Global Studies, but probably one last paper. And for Aging, we have a final on Monday that's only on the section that we're on right now and with some studying over the weekend (which should be easy because not a whole lot of people will be here so more time to cncentrate). So really feeling ok but it's still some work I have to put into it. Ugh, I'm pretty ready for break. Even though my life will be pretty much spent at Regal. Whhooohoo. :D