new sweatshirt!

Today I bought a new sweatshirt in the store because I wanted one that said CWU across it really big. It's red with black letters.

All my classes were pretty good today. In philosophy I came to the conclusion that basically what the meaning of life boils down to is only what you can make of it for yourself. Basically, everyone's meaning is different. I could say the meaning of life for myself is to help others understand something. But that isn't necessarily the meaning for your life. We can't generalize anything broad enough to apply it to everyone or all life. My thoughts on this might change, but for now that's what I'm thinking.

I'm going over to my friend's dorm to watch more horror movies in a few minutes. I just finished a paper, and I'm going to be doing a lot of reading for history tonight after the movie. yaaay

Working out this morning was really fun! Planning on doing it again friday

horror galore

In honor of the month of Halloween, my friend Kara and I have been renting cheap old horror movies from the Hollywood Video down the street. We rented Silence of the Lambs, House of Wax, An American Werewolf in London, and Jigsaw. Today we watched Silence of the Lambs and Jigsaw. Jigsaw is definitely one of the worst horror films I've ever seen, which isn't entirely surprising since they only had 5000 dollars or something like that to make the movie, but the acting is just so terrible. Kara and I laughed about it the entire time.

In other news, classes have been going well! Yesterday my English professor didn't show up for class, so we all left! And today I only had two classes, which was nice. I was able to organize my room a bit and take out the trash and recycling. The weather is starting to get chilly and windy and cloudy! I was actually able to wear a sweater and boots today without being too hot in the afternoon! Apple cider season has officially begun!

I think that's about all the news I have for today... Write more tomorrow! ...or whenever I get some new news...

Oh yeah, yesterday Kara and I went to the rec center and worked out for about 40 minutes. We're doing it again tomorrow, so I'll be up SUUUPER early which is why I'm going to bed so early tonight! Goodnight!

Sunday/Monday!

Sunday was a pretty good day. My friends had to do laundry, so I went with them and played some epic games of Spoons and Egyptian Rat on the floor. Last night, my friend Kara and I decided to ride our bikes around and try to find the Safeway here in town, so we were riding around town in the dark for about two hours! It was pretty fun.

Philosophy class this morning was pretty interesting, although I had a reaaaalllyyy bad headache, so it was hard to speculate about the meaning of life at 9 in the morning. I think it made my headache worse... Haha and then history class was finished about half an hour early so here I am, back at my dorm trying to make my headache go away! Woooooo

Don't have another class until 3, so maybe I'll try to read a little in my philosophy book? Maybe, we shall see.

Friday Night!

Yesterday after all my classes, my friends and I went to a barbecue at the same place that the rootbeer kegger was held! It was super fun, free hamburgers and chips and cookies and soda! After we ate, then we got about 10-12 people in the backyard and played volleyball which I haven't played in about five years, so it wasn't the best game ever, but it was still a ton of fun!

Eventually it got to be so dark that we couldn't really see the ball anymore, so my friends and I decided to go back to their dorm and watch Terminator 2. By the end of it, it was about 10:30, and since I live so far away from everything else, my friends walked me back to my dorm, where I found out that the power had gone out. So friends went back to their dorm, and I sat in the lounge with some people for about 2 hours waiting for it to come back on. But at 12:30, a group of girls were heading up to bed, so I tagged along with them (I would've gone sooner, but I was afraid of the dark...and terminators) and went to bed with a glowstick.

The power was on when I woke up this morning, so that's all good now! The same friends from last night and I are having homemade french toast (courtesy of Rosie!) in their dorm! I'm bringin' the orange juice and lemonade! Vitamin C! We don't want to get swine flu. We already think one of my other friends might have swine flu, because he smokes hookah and we're pretty sure that's where he got it from. Don't smoke hookah people! Tis bad for you.

Oh and also I posted a new poem on fictionpress.com/~dragonzz. I wrote it september 13th but just now decided to post it, so go check it out and read it and review it because I think it's one of my personal favorites out of all the poems I've written lately.

new day, new friends

Made a new  friend today from my university class! Then I met all her friends from her dorm and we had lunch together and it was really fun!

In other news, I really can't wait for it to start getting cold and snowy. I'm getting a little tired of waking up sweating because my room is too hot. I'd much rather be too cold than too hot.

First day of classes!

3 classes today, here's how they went.

9-9:50 a.m. philosophy:
I was extremely early because I wasn't sure how long it would take me to walk to the building so I had to stand outside the class for about half an hour waiting, but it ended up not being too bad. Then when the professor got there, he started telling jokes and was really funny and we didn't really talk about too much philosophy since it's only the first day, but he did say we would jump right into it tomorrow.

10-10:50 a.m. history:
This class is in a classroom with theatre-esque seats, making it difficult to take notes and stuff. But the teacher seemed nice enough and funny. The only thing that makes me nervous about this class is that he said we would be doing a lot of debates, which I've never been very good at, but I suppose I have to get confident with it eventually... I'm excited for this class though, because it's american history up to the year 1865, which is my favorite time period of our history to learn about so this will be a good class.

After those classes, I didn't have another one until 3 in the afternoon so I came back to my dorm and dropped off some stuff and rode my bike over to my friend's dorm to meet up with her for lunch. Then we went to english class together since we are in the same class. The teacher in this class is REALLY young and I can't wait to see what sort of fresh ideas he has for the class.

Tomorrow my schedule is a little different. 9-9:50, philosophy. 10-10:50, history, then 12-12:50, university 101, which is a class required for all freshman. We'll see how it goes. Tomorrow I'll be done with all my classes by 1! So glad!

Today my friends and I rode our bikes around and I had to go to the bank to get checks to pay for first quarter and it was very frustrating but we finally figured it all out and I was able to use my connection card to eat lunch in the cafeteria thing for the first time since I got here! Exciting.

Found where all my classes are today also! They aren't too hard to find so I'm not too worried for class  tomorrow... I'm actually really excited for classes to start! It'll give me something to do besides ride bikes all day (which is nice, just need a break in that routine).

A friend and I are planning on working out in the mornings before our classes in the rec center here starting next monday! I'm going to have to get up super early for that since my first class is at nine in the morning!

Going to Fred Meyer tonight to get some stuff! Wooooo!

INTERNET!!!

So, I FINALLY got my internet to work! I've completely moved in and all is well!

I've been getting a TON of exercise between riding my bike to my friend's dorm, going up and down stairs, and walking to the bathroom which is all the way at the other end of the hall for me, but that's ok because I LOVE COLLEGE! It's so nice to not have people telling me what to do, especially since I'm one of those people who just likes to do my own thing most of the time.

All in all, it's absolutely fantastic and I love it! Classes start on wednesday, I might post pictures soon if I can. We shall see!

Oh yeah, and I got my books today too. I have 9 of them. Two are really big and the rest are all quite small, so it won't be tooooo bad to carry around, assuming I don't need all of them everyday for each class.

In other news, I went to a rootbeer kegger the other night and it was the greatest thing ever. I sat around in some college kids' basement drinking rootbeer with upperclassmen and talking about college life and what we want to be when we leave here and basically just met a TON of super cool people! Hoping to go hiking with them soon, and also hoping to go river rafting with some friends soon as well.

I am officially leaving for college this morning! Goodbye carnation, I'll miss ya

Miley concert!!

So last night my bestest friend ever took me to see Miley Cyrus' concert at the Tacoma Dome!! It was so incredible! I took a ton of video and my friend took a ton of pictures!

So I've been packing up for college the last few days, and I'm beginning to worry that I might have too much stuff. I have about 13 boxes (some are small though) and I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find places for all of my stuff in my dorm!!

Ugh. I wish the school website had better pictures of the rooms.

In other news, I took some pictures of my kitten today!

I'm heading off to college in a few days and I thought I would start this blog for those of you who I don't talk to all that often. Anyone else can follow too, maybe someone who is going to college next year and wants to know what it's like or my friends or something! I guess we'll see how it goes!