Curtis is in Iowa: Indiana / Ohio Border

Curtis is in Iowa: Indiana / Ohio Border

back to school.

back to school, and things seem to be going well so far. i'm not gonna lie, organic chem is going to kick my butt, but ill survive. sophomore year is my favorite year of college so far, thanks to a certain someone. bio should be interesting. but most importantly, i have friends.

day of truth.

today marks three weeks since the volleyball incident. i decided that i'm going back to play this week, i'm just not going to be allowed to help set up the nets. our game plan: arrive ten minutes late as to avoid any hazards all together. hehe.

one frantic car ride, two volleyball net poles, three xrays, four staples, and five hours later.

so i went to play volleyball last night. i was trying to be helpful, and where does that get me? a trip to the emergency room. woohoo.... this will be short since i'm not exactly in the mood for pouring my heart out.

instead, let's make a list of things i don't get to do now. a) no motorcycling for a few weeks. b) no driving for a few days. c) no swimming at kristie's grad party on friday. d) no being able to wash my own hair for a week. e) and since these staples are in the back of my head, i don't even get to see them. yes, i know, i should be more upset about that fact that i got hurt, but really, i just want to be able to see them, but no one has taken a good picture yet. oh well.

Cliche.

Four down, one to go.  That's the stereotypical response you would receive when you ask a college student how they're doing during finals week.  That's so cliche, boring.  No thanks.  If you were to ask me how I'm doing, currently, I would probably answer as follows:  All I have left is Biology, and then I can go home.  Although, I do have to pack between now and Monday afternoon, but don't worry, I'll get there.  This type of packing should be easier than most.  Basically, take everything off the shelves, out of the closet, and empty all the drawers.  Throw all my stuff into boxes, and tape them shut.  The hard part comes when I have to carry all these boxes down a flight of stairs to my ready and waiting car.

This past year has been interesting, no doubt.  Let's recap.  I've made some great new friends as well as keeping the old ones that matter.  Long distance friendships are difficult, especially when your main source of communication is Instant Messenger, but look, we've survived.  We're still friends, and will be for a long time.  This makes me smile.

As bored as I currently am, I thought this was going to be an uber long post, but it turns out it's going to be cut short.  I'm just that bored; not a good this.  Too much free time tends to make my mind wander, and I really dislike that.

two weeks notice.

two weeks notice: there are two weeks of school left this semester.  5 days of classes followed by 5 days of review and finals. and then I get to go home. as much as I've been looking forward to finally being able to be home, I know I'm going to miss it here too.  I've made some great friends over the past few months and I know I'm going to miss them all very much.  Lucky for me, most of them live within a 4-5 hour driving radius from my house.

this past weekend and the days surrounding it have been pretty good though.  let's recap: hot dog day weekend; friday and saturday.  excellent.  sunday was decent, nothing too exciting or depressing happened.  monday was fun, went by quickly, and ended with a phone call on speaker phone to one of my best friends.  haha, it was epic.

all in all, at this very moment, I am completely content with my life, which is not something I have said in a very long time.

mind reader

today has been uniquely weird. first, we got let out of chemistry a few minutes early, then I actually understood what was taught in biology.  then in piano, not only did we get let out a few minutes early, but I was actually able to play a new song and it sounded good. See, I am my own biggest critic, so for weeks now I've been saying how I can't play the piano, I'm so bad at it, yadda yadda, yadda... but I was pretty decent when it came to judging time.

so next was psych, which i got to early since I had more than 9 minutes to run across campus.  i can't say psych was anything special, since only one person technically noticed my new hair color, and it wasn't even the person i wanted to notice it.  we learned about sex. woo...it was...interesting.  of course i sat there blushing and doing that 'nervous cough' thing i have.  whatever. after that was lunch and then i ran back and forth between the student center and my dorm like fifty million times.

my equine science class was excellent.  we studied for about ten minutes, then took a rather lengthy quiz, and then were released into the brisk alfred air after less than an hour of class time. it was rather exciting.  back to campus, had to park in the boonies, but whatever, that happens on mondays.  i called my mom as i walked back to my room and she told me i sounded 'chipper'. haha, that's funny.

the reason for this good mood today, i'm not entirely sure, but it might stem from my new hair color, or the fact that i went outside my comfort zone this weekend and hung out with some new people. played me some rock band, and rocked it.  

but i have to say, the reason for this title is that as i was reading through my friend's blog, i read something that i was pretty interested with.  a piece of advice he had given me back in January.  It must've been getting closer to me having to go back to AU, and I was in a fit of depression.  He was giving me advice about trying to be happier, which i always thought i should say right back to him.  Then last week I had this crazy idea that if i copy/pasted the advice into an email and sent it back to him, it might do some good.

I never actually did send that email, but I had been thinking about it for a long time.  so the whole mind reader thing, well it's because the day he posted on his blog, i'm pretty sure was the same day i was going to send that email.  and i absolutely love when things like that happen.  i don't believe in magic, but i do believe that if you have a strong enough relationship with someone, you can start to think very much alike.