Dog Tired

     This week was a lot like any other. It was long, very tiring, featured rain, lots of walking, lots of homework, tests and quizzes, etc.

     It also had some out-of-the-ordinary things, too. Like playing Settlers of Catan with Courtney, Louise and Harry(I lost, now 0-for-18-and-counting...), sleeping late, a cookout at Grace Baptist, and a dog visiting in psych.

     Monday had the depressing "Super Size Me" documentary to watch and finish the assignment for it, then doing other assignments for nutrition, as well as taking a psych quiz, working lots of editing homework and getting ready for a lit quiz. Then went to the BCM that night, SWAT practice was pretty rough, it didn't go so well. Then the worship service and then volleyball practice, which went okay. My setting was improving, but defense wasn't the best. (It's SCARY when the ball rockets at your head! And embarrassing when a serve clonks your glasses off when you're trying to return it.) I didn't make the roster of any of the three teams NSU's group is sending to the state tournament, which was a little disappointing. But I didn't think I would really, anyway, just was hoping. Serving and passing aren't quite enough to solely rely on. There's always next year, though, right?

     Been kind of dealing with some type of stomach bug all week, that's not really much fun. And everyone is just absolutely exhausted, dealing with the second wave of tests and everything, no more energy to focus. I forgot the dates of when the Black Tuesday's stock market crash was (Prof. Semrow: "Anybody know this date was called?" "Black Friday?" Snickering from class and I want to fall into the floor. Sydney: "That's the shopping day after Thanksgiving." Prof. Semrow: "Black Tuesday. At least you were on the right track.") and when the Great Depression ended. Out loud. So...yeah. It wasn't the best lit class ever or anything.
     And the stories we had this week are about a young wife dying of heart disease in 1894 and a woman recalling her parenting methods as a single mother of her oldest daughter during the Great Depression. Neither of which I can exactly understand very well, and they're sort of downers.

     Psych test was Wednesday, was really anxious about it, but it went all right. Got all my editing homework done, and nutrition assignments, only to have editing canceled Thursday and nutrition canceled Friday. So I slept in Friday morning until nine, where I throw everything together in a hurry and rush down to the Business/Tech building and....oh, yeah, we didn't have class today, did we? And Thursday me and two other people showed up anyway and reviewed homework for two hours.

     Mrs. Bowin brought her dog Gus into class Friday to illustrate how we associate different stimuli together through classical conditioning, he really, really, REALLY hates the smell of nail polish remover. Even just seeing the bottle, he makes this horrible frowny face. And he was scared, being in that strange new place with all these stressed-smelling people nearby. Kinda felt sorry for him.

     Louise and Harry decided to visit the family Thursday night, they asked if I wanted to come along. That was nice.
     That new show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is great, at least so far. The pilot ran Tuesday on ABC, it's basically like a Marvel movie put into TV-show format. There were a ton of references to the movies, too, and good one-liners and sarcastic comments.
     Only ate in the caf about three times this week, which was nice. I still have a bunch of groceries, and then meal trades and stuff. Went to this place downtown for dinner Friday night, it was a nice night to go for a walk. And once or twice a semester you can splurge and do something weird like that, right? The fries and toast from my chicken-fried-steak dinner made a good midnight snack and breakfast today.
     Hiked up to Grace Baptist and back for a cookout earlier tonight, which went okay. There was some good food there, catfish, hush puppies, and lots of chocolatey desserts.
     Walked down to Morgan's Bakery Tuesday for the first time in about a month, that always makes the day go better.
     Homecoming is next week, I'm planning on skipping it. Because the far-more-important holiday of the Okmulgee Library Book Sale is that weekend! Wrote this last year about Homecomings, so don't really need to add anything there. This year's theme is "Get Rowdy in the Jungle", so Ross has become a construction-paper forest, pretty much. And so every time I check the mail that guitar intro from "Welcome To The Jungle" runs through my head. But at least it's an original theme, and not a copyright violation of something or other like most of them are.
     And I found a couple of episodes of Wishbone on YouTube.

     Only watched Jeopardy once this week, discovered among the strange array of channels the TV gets sometimes leads to Canadian football on the NBC Sports Network. Full House hasn't been seen in a couple weeks, it's like the way Wal-Mart is always switching up layout design, the schedule is always changing. Is it time for the Olympics yet?