Class schedule

I've been told to post this... so here it is:
MWF:
Structures, 9:35-10:25
Studio, 1:15-5

T-TH:
Computers, 12:30-1:45
Environmental systems, 2-3:15

*Lifeguarding is Monday, 11 AM-1 PM, and Tuesday and Thursday 9-11 AM.

And in further proof that my family is the greatest thing ever, they sent me as a COMPLETE SURPRISE a cellphone- with their phone numbers programmed in already! I was ready to die of joy and cuteness!
YAY!!!

A dose of Catholic humor

I saw this the other day and had to post it...

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." The abbot goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are archived in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the him. So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He finds the abbot banging his head against the wall and wailing,"We missed the "R!" , we missed the "R!" His forehead is bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, Father?" With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was...

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Football tickets

Just a quick note- good seats this year! I'm in Section 28, row 22, and here is the map of the stadium.

Photos!

Well, as hoped for- photos of my room. This is from the doorway looking in. I know the curtains are nice, but I honestly can't take credit for them. They were here when I moved in!

This picture is from a bit further away, so you can see some of the big black futon in the foreground.

And this is from the other side of the room, in front of the window. There's actually a little recess next to where I'm standing that has the sink and mirror cabinet too, which are too far back to be seen in any of the pictures. And stop right here if you're squeamish, because the next picture is a (bad) photo of my knee with stitches in it on day 2. Not so bad, really... ( I can say this because it is now almost day 3, ha!)

An eventful update

Well, I didn't go even the first week without drama! On Thursday I went for a run after class and I was going to turn left by St. Mary's, but there were car barriers in the way, so I tried to jump over them. I made it over, but I clipped my knee on the top of the guardrail and had to get stitches. I happened to land on my feet, so my knee was the only thing that was injured. Luckily, there were a lot of other people running, so one of them called campus security from an emergency call box nearby. They came out in about 2 minutes and bandaged me up, and told me I needed stitches (I knew that pretty much as soon as it happened!) so they called an ambulance and took me to St. Joseph's hospital in South Bend. Everyone was really nice, although I've decided I could never be a nurse. Man, that's a rough job, dealing with people who are in pain and aren't quite with it again and again and again. More power to them. Anyway, after a while in the hospital I was stitched up-I needed 6 stitches- and campus security brought me back to the dorm. The whole day it didn't hurt that much. I don't know if I was in shock or just cut some nerves, but I felt uncomfortable, but not in a painful sort of way; it just ached. Then of course I got a local anesthetic for the stitches which lasted for the rest of the day, so that was great! By the time I got out of the hospital, I was mostly just hungry and kinda tired.
Mara kindly walked slowly with me as a hobbled to the dining hall, thank goodness for her!

They hadn't given me any crutches or painkillers though, so that night after the anesthetic wore off I started suffering. I couldn't sleep for a lot of the night, and then swelling set in so I had a pretty hard time walking. Ashley Kelly walked me to my morning class, and I got some ice that I used during class in Bond. I have never been so glad to live so close to Bond and the dining hall in my life! As I went through the day and the Aleve started working I started to feel a lot better, and I got a break from studio to apply ice again. This morning I could walk twice as fast and bend my knee about twice as far, and there's almost no pain. It's great!

Otherwise, I have a couple of assignment to start- one for structures and 2 photoshop projects for studio and computers. I don't think they'll be bad, I just need to motivate myself to go ahead and do it! Hopefully I'll get pictures up soon- I would like to have one of my room and one featuring my knee, since that's the main news right now! (Sorry, anyone squeamish out there!)

Another beginning

School starts today. I got here on Saturday but I didn't really do anything other than attend the Recsports orientation and start recertifying my Oxygen and CPR and stuff like that. Yesterday I got most of my room put together and I really like it. The only thing left that I really want to do to it is build a loft, so hopefully I'll do that next weekend. I only had to buy 2 books this year (at least so far that's what's on the list!) and I have 2 classes and lifeguarding today- I think I'm watching the freshman swim testing. I have to hurry up and go to that, but it promises to be a great year. I'm way behind on the inside jokes in the dorm after being away for a year though!

We also got football tickets this morning- GO IRISH!