I'm really tired. Some of that could be from getting about five or six hours' sleep for about three or four nights in a row, or maybe it's from the first wave of tests last week. But this semester is about a month old, so there will be just about twelve or so weeks left...that's good. I've sort of run out of study-drive energy.
School's going okay, as well as it ever does. Nutrition is still tough, psych demanding, editing a challenge, with Latin and lit being very good.
The temperature in the dorms is settling back into its normal arctic levels, and the insect infestation is still fully in effect. I found a preying mantis in my hair this afternoon. Well, I didn't actually find it in my hair....it sorta dropped off my head onto my laptop keyboard. Needless to say, I grabbed a piece of toilet paper, carefully trapped the mantis and then smashed her. (Well, it might have been a male. And in that case, wouldn't a better death be by smashing than getting eaten alive by your mate?) After that, I FREAKED. And that, yeah, pretty much threw the whole rest of the day out-of-kilter. Yecch....!!!! So. Nasty.
Didn't get hardly any studying done after that, though I did get this week's nutrition quiz out of the way. Maybe tomorrow will be more productive. Didn't have any homework for Thursday in editing, and we're still discussing "Hills Like White Elephants" in lit. (You know, that's short. And good. Maybe I ought to do a post on it for here.) We should get our Latin tests back tomorrow. I loved this heading above it: "Probatio Capitulo I, Autumnus MMXIII" (Translation: "Chapter 1 Test, Fall 2013.")
The BCM's drama group/ministry deal, SWAT, is off to a good start this year. Last week we were unexpectedly asked to fill in something with 45 minutes notice, so we quickly ran through one of the skits, a game show spoof called "Go With The Flow". It went very well, going from cold-reading to full showtime in just over an hour, and about six takes. I play the host, Matt Kojak, still working on the proper blending of Bob Barker and Ryan Seacrest. (Side note, Idol will be atrociously unwatchable next year, with Randy and JayLo both back. I'm out.)
I guess there's this state volleyball tournament in Edmond in late October, with all the the BCM chapters at each school competing against each other. So there was a volleyball practice last night after the worship service, which followed the SWAT practice; anyway, there was about thirty to forty guys and girls trying to make the sixteen or so slots for the two teams NSU's group will be sending. So it'll be competitive, which is fantastic. The intensity of the atmosphere was almost like SGYC ping pong: If you're gonna play, go hard, and play to win. One downside: The sole of my right black Nike decided to begin to separate from the upper part, so I may have to go sneaker-shopping here soonish...
The apathy towards school-sponsored sports apparently isn't at a high enough level or something, so NSU decided to begin this stupid-sounding idea of not allowing students and faculty into football and basketball games just with ID. Instead, now we'll have to print off one of these digital bar codes and present that. General predictions say that it won't go over too well and student participation will plummet.
Speaking of not attending the football games, there's now been the second suspicious death since May, when the chemistry professor was murdered. Somebody rode to Kansas for the Pitt State game with some friends, left his truck by the track in the parking lot and forgot to lock it. When he went back to get it late Sunday afternoon, there was a bloody dead guy sitting in the car. CREEPY.... And scary... Made for a lot of lively speculation this afternoon before editing. Why would someone want the body to be found if they killed someone? Even creepier...the church is about a quarter-mile past the football stadium. I probably walked past the truck on the way back home....
There was also that bomb threat at the courthouse the last day of school in spring, and a shooting at Love's last month.
Songs of the Day were Audio Adrenaline's "Big House", Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble"(sadly without the goats) and Jason Aldean's "Tattoos On This Town". Going to try to write a few spec stories to send to the TNE, we'll see if they might run or not. The twelfth anniversary of 9/11 is tomorrow. Mimi's birthday would be next Wednesday, Mom's birthday is Sunday. Missing the dogs and goats and Rags, and been thinking about camp and that homeless shelter we worked at over spring break, for some reason.
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