Drowned Rat

This was taken in 2008 at the Morten Arboretum.  I thought you should know.

It rained today.

  Hard. 

It was almost horizontal. 

I heard thunder. 

I was wet up to my eyeballs. 

And then, I heard there was tornado in a town half an hour north of us.  So what did I do?

Well, I gave up on the umbrella my friend was so graciously sharing with me.

And I danced.  

In the rain.

The sad point for the day - I forgot to be an airplane.  I'll remember that for next time.  

I hope.

Apartment Love

I live in an apartment now which means: bills, rent, and responsibility.  Yay.  Its actually quite amazing.  I haven't been this happy at college since  before I left.  That doesn't really make a lot of sense.  Basically, I'm not happy in a 15 x 12 cinder block room that I'm sharing with someone else.  But just like living in a house on your own, there's always problems.  I feel like every time I get one fixed, there's another one coming.

It started with a window.  I moved in and my window facing the street didn't lock or close or open.  It was kind of perpetually stuck in the same position.  That took about 4 weeks to fix.

I had a leaky air conditioner and an overheating dryer.

I had drafty windows.

My ceiling leaks.  Yes, present tense.  This happened on Wednesday night.  I was sitting on  my couch getting reading to fall asleep when I heard some weird noise coming from the bathroom.  I opened the door and there is water running down the walls and dripping onto the floor. Our mat by the toilet is soaked, and the toilet paper has a hole in it from where the water has been dripping for the past couple of hours I can only assume.

I went to my upstairs neighbors to make sure no one was dead and no one was, but they also didn't want any help fixing the bathroom.  So my only solution: buckets and a phone call.  I called the property manager for the umpteenth time this semester to let them know there is water in the bathroom where it shouldn't be.

Its stopped leaking since then.  I'm just wondering when the bathtub from upstairs will fall through the ceiling.

Thursday

This was not today.  

Today there was snow.

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Things that I have learned this week (and it's only Tuesday):

• The Union Vending machine room is open until 3am
• The Union closes at midnight
• Grainger has a designated eating area
• You can only have a study room in UGL for 2 hours
• The Six pack smells bad
• I am what some would call an overacheiver and do way too much
• I like coffee
• Getting 1000+ emails a day is only exciting if you're picking a color for a t-shirt
• South Africa and the United States are strangely parallel countries (I may explain that later)
• I would rather stare at facebook than do what I'm supposed to do (which is pretty much everything else in the world)
• When it rains, the ground is wet
• Eating chocolate and pretzels at the same time is possibly the best idea ever
• I miss my friends

Sometimes, we drive through corn

This past weekend I was in Indianapolis (I know, exciting city right?).  Why was I there?  Well I'm part of this non-profit organization called Habitat for Humanity and we had a youth conference there.  There was lots of Habitatness and I got a lot of Habitat swag.  You know college kids, we like the free stuff.

Something exciting that came out of this weekend was the American Mural Project, which had part of a huge mural that's going up in Connecticut that we all got to decorate.  This is our contribution.

Happy... November?

  

Uhm, what happened to October?  Anyways, today was a beautiful day.  I wore a hoodie and scarf because it was so warm.