So I've had many days of complete and total relaxation, and now it's time to start preparing for my defense on Friday. It's going to be tough. It's going to be reeeeally tough. So that's how I'll be spending my next 48 hours.
Friday night I got really depressed about my honors project. It was like a breakup, essentially. I formed such a close relationship with it; we spent all our time together for weeks; every free moment I had, it was always there. And then it was suddenly gone. What was I going to do with all my time? I felt lost and purposeless. But, this dark time in my life lasted only a few hours, and then the good feelings came back. Granted, I've dreamt about various aspects of honors almost every night since — I'm editing and can't get it to sound right, I realize I've written something really stupid and can't take it back, one of my readers asks a question about Austria (thanks, Ben's project) and I can't answer it — but I'm adjusting to my new life pretty well.
It was nature weekend for me. I spent hours and hours outside in the sun — it was a beautiful 80-90 degrees every day. Friday was the World Language and Culture Festival, which was a gigantic success. The weather was beautiful, so many people showed up, and my first graders playing their maracas with OSteel were the cutest thing ever.
On Friday night, we trekked southward to a party, but didn't end up going inside because it looked too crowded. (Is this evidence that we're getting too old for big campus parties? Maybe.) In any case, since we were pretty far south anyway, we went to the arb, where we ran into a group of high schoolers. (Well maybe. It's hard to tell the difference between high schoolers and freshmen — no offense, freshmen. Again, evidence that we're getting too old? Maybe.) Anyway, we went into the woods and up a hill to lay down and look at the stars for a while. Then we went back to my house (I had stepped in a giant mud puddle and broken a flip flop), and ended up staying there out on the porch for another long period of time. We managed to fit five people on that trash couch, so, automatic win.
Then Saturday I spent a long time on the porch, and in the afternoon we went to Goodwill. On the way, we saw a car ON FIRE from maybe 20 yards away, which was so cool.
Then I lost my phone, took a four hour nap between 8 pm and midnight, and then couldn't find where anyone was because of aforementioned phone loss, and wandered around until I found Kate and Henry in north quad. Then the three of us went up to north fields to the tower (don't know what it's for... changing the scoreboard when it wasn't digital? sniping the other team's outfielders? playing pirate ship and you're in the crow's nest?) and did more star-watching. Then we sat on the boys' porch and watched all the drama that unfolds on Woodland street at 3 am on a Saturday (ie, drunk football players beating up other drunk football players).
The nature continued on Sunday night, when I went with Abby and Mike to the resevoir to swim. Well, I didn't swim, partly because I had just showered, partly because it was dark, and partly because the last time I swam in not-a-pool I got parasites. I did more star-watching.
Sunday during the day I read the entirety of Happens Every Day and my two word review of it is: "Hot. Mess." I loved it.
Our steel exco concert is next Friday, and our theme is "Pan You Steel the Love Tonight". YES THAT'S RIGHT. We're dressing up in Lion King costumes. I also maaay have helped organize a big (secret) rehearsal just now (I have nothing else to do?) so we can really blow OSteel and our instructors away. I've heard that our exco is one of the best in years, so it should be a really good show (pictures and videos to follow).
Today was our last SITES class — we played a big cumulative Jeopardy game and ate cookies and it was a wonderful success. The Big Parade is this Saturday, and then SITES will really be over!
Also, THE DREADED SWINE FLU made it to Lorain County, so that's cool. Apparently young people with healthy immune systems are more suseptible to, well, death, than older people are. Something about the healthy immune system becoming overactive and then your body kills you, rather than the swine flu killing you. Crazy stuff. Of course this happens now that I'm extremely well-rested, eating regularly, and completely un-stressed. Hmm, how can I acquire a weak immune system...
I know! I'll go give blood.
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