USRH Weekend

I spent most of last weekend doing things with USRH. Saturday was Fall Fest on the Fox, and I was part of the USRH Dragon Boat team.

Friday
Friday was the most boring part of the weekend. I went to classes, talked to my friends about the season premiere of Glee, and played some Magic. I also got ready for Dragon Boats!


I figured that since we were supposed to meet in the office at 7:15am, it would be better to pack the night before, so I didn't forget anything too important. So of course I packed everything into my USRH bag: snacks, sweat for when we weren't in the boat, my camera, team shirt. I still forgot to pack a towel though, which in hindsight probably would have been a good idea.

Saturday
Dragon Boats! It was really cold in the morning, which kinda made me wish I hadn't signed up for it. It did get warmer as the day went on though, so it wasn't too bad.


Team USRH, war paint and all. We ended up doing pretty well: we moved up to division C from division D (which I believe is a first for any ResLife team), and ended up placing 7th out of 12 in that division. After we were finished, my parents took Jon and I out for dinner, which was amazing since we were both starving.

Sunday
Since so much of my time on Saturday was spent off campus, I didn't get any of my work done. So I decided to kill two birds with one stone, and go fill my office hours while I did my homework. Committee chairs don't get their own desks, so I usually pirate Kristen's, since even when she's there she doesn't use it.


I believe this is either her mascot, or USRH's. I'm not entirely clear on it, but I think it's hilarious.

Monday
Ok, so this is definitely not part of the weekend, but it was just as exciting, because GUESS WHAT just came out on Netflix?!!


That's right, the Princess and the Frog. I know it's a kid's movie, but I think it's wicked cool that Disney is trying to make more traditionally animated movies. I think I heard the plan was to do one every year or every other year. Plus, the directors for it also did the Little Mermaid and Aladdin, both of which any kid will tell you are awesome.

Bonus trivia: the Little Mermaid was released in November 1989, just a few months after I was born. Weird, huh?

Hair Twistys

On Monday, one of the girls who sits next to me in my lit. class was telling me about these cool hair things she had. They look like big twisty bobby pins and are apparently a really easy way to put your hair up. So when I made a Walmart run with some of my friends the other day and saw them sitting on a display at the end of an aisle, I figured I'd give them a try.


Here's what they look like on their own. They also come in a darker color for those of you who aren't blond. They were pretty easy to get the hang of, and worked a lot better than I thought they would. I had assumed that I'd at least need to fix it up a little, but they stayed in and held my hair in place all day.

Side note- I didn't take this picture. It's a screenshot from the Goody website. Coincidentally, does anyone else hate the new Google Image Search?


I gave them a try yesterday, and really liked them. I did take this picture in the morning, but aside from getting rained on it looked pretty much the same at the end of the day. It was a fairly quick operation, too- all you have to do is twist your hair around, then screw one pin in from the top and the other in from the bottom and you're good to go. It'll be nice on days when I'm running behind in the morning. Ashley, the girl who told me about these things, had a messier bun than mine is, probably because she has much longer hair. Something to keep in mind if anyone is interested in them.

Random things

Sunday
Ok, I admit I took this picture last minute and when Sunday was almost over and I hadn't yet taken a picture. Anyway...


Meet Tattoo, the blank white sock monkey. Like most of the animals in my room, my sister Brenna made him for me. Eventually I'll get around to decorating him, at which point the name will fit better. Until then, consider this a "before" picture.

Monday
Let me tell you about Mondays. They're not fun. I have class from 9:10-10:10, 10:20-11:20, and 12:40-1:40. And really, none of that would be too bad, IF I didn't also have Foundations of Literary Criticism from 3:00-6:00. It's only slightly more interesting than it sounds. Check this out:


This is ONE of the three texts I have for this class. We semi-affectionately refer to it as "The Tome." In case you're wondering, it's open to page 702. And it's what, MAYBE a third of the way through the book? Yeah, this class rocks.

Tuesday
I only have one word: ew.


Not the most flattering picture, is it? But Jon thought it would be funny to make me wear his hat around. He REALLY laughed when he put it on backwards. Apparently I'm not much of a hat person.

Wednesday
Today I took a walk downtown with Jon, ad it was lovely. Perfect weather for a nice walk, and the leaves are starting to change colors, so it was quite pretty.


I really do love the fall. It's probably my favorite season. I love the food and the clothes and everything :)

Week One

Sorry it's taken me so long to update! It was the first full week of school and I was kind of busy. Also, I completely forgot to take a picture yesterday. So I apologize for that, too. Back to the updates:

Tuesday
I have no classes on Tuesday. It's awesome. It's even more awesome since I have classes for FOREVER on Monday. (Forever ends at 6, btw.) This has led me to dub Tuesday "No Stress Day," since I'm pretty much free to do whatever. Like get a tutor for math and schedule USRH meetings!


This is the Stress Pig. He helps keep No Stress Day chill. Or, he will, in the event that something goes horribly wrong and Tuesdays become stressful.

Wednesday
Seeing as it was the day before OGS, and there are a bunch of new MTG players (none of whom we've really liked, unfortunately), we decided to get together and fix up our decks so we could own when we got there.


Not sure which deck he was working on at that point, but apparently he was really concentrating.

Thursday


We had our first USRH meeting with the entire assembly on Thursday. I will admit, it was kind of long and boring. But we did do some interesting stuff. Like introductions. jk- we talked about trying to get a bid for School of the Year this year, which would be pretty epic.

Friday
My hair was SO ANGRY on friday! Look at all of the stuff I have for it:


Both of those boxes are full of hair stuff (and some jewelry), and none of it was working for me. It was like I had Sophie hair, which takes several hair ties to restrain. I'll have to remember that the next time I think about making a Medusa joke!

New friends

Yesterday, I met the girls who live across the hall from me. We lived on the same floor last year, too, but they were both farther down the hall so we never really crossed paths. Yesterday, though, we both had our doors open, so I went over to introduce myself. Turns out, they're quite nice :) Then, when they found out I had never seen Firefly, they loaned me the first season.


They both have it, so they can keep watching it while I get caught up on yet another geeky tv show. lol