So today was my last chemistry lab at rose-hulman ever! Quite the invigorating experience. And i even got out 15 minutes early. Woohoo! Also, a week from today i will be driving to the grand canyon with my girdinnia! YEAH! Oh, so i had to cancel my order for my formal dress b/c they lost my order and now the dress can't be shipped until march 15, but formal is on march 13. So it doesn't do me much good then. Anyway, so i thought i'd call the indianapolis store and see if i could get the dress there. So i look up their number in the white pages, and low and behold, i get Crystal's voicemail. Right now she's probably wondering "who do i know that has an 864 area code?" Well, so i call the Merrillville store thinking they could give me the correct number. Well i call them, and guess what, Merrillville is the ONLY store in Indiana. So i check to see where Merrillville is, just in case it's close by. Nope, it's in Chicago. But guess what, i'm driving through St. Louis on Wednesday. So i'm thinking "Hey, i'll just stop in a Frderick's while i'm in St. Louis" Good thought right? Wrong. Apparantly the stores don't carry clothes anymore, just lingerie. Now, while lingerie is fine and dandy, i don't think people would like me going to formal with a teddy. So now the hunt for a new formal dress begins. Maybe i'll find something in Sedona. Hehehe...maybe it will have aliens on it! So this is the last week of classes. I'm so excited. I still have a whole bunch of stuff to work on before the end of this week, but once this week is over I can finally be a REAL senior. And you know what that means! Lots of sleep. Anyway, valentine's day went fine. Just cooked dinner and watched a movie. I think this weekend we may go to Indy and have a nice dinner. Other than that, no big plans this week. I think i'll probably just sit, do homework and maybe try and catch up on my sleep. I've been very tired lately. Brett says i have mono. I think he's crazy. So tomorrow i get to knock out two big things on my To-Do list. YEAH! Let's just hope i don't have to stay up until the butt crack of dawn to get it done. Well, i'll try post before i leave for the grand canyon. But definitely when i come back, there will be all sorts of stories. Also, maybe i'll learn how to put pictures up too!

Well, lab sucked as always. Only one more week of chem lab and i'm done with labs at Rose-Hulman for EVER! Yeah! So today, something pretty interesting happened. I was driving down the road on my way home from lab, and i saw a guy in a nice blazer and nice slacks. He had on a t-shirt and tennis shoes AND a burger king crown on his head. In his hand was a brief case and his other hand was making the thumbs down sign. Now, i thought to myself, what could possibly be going on here? After some deep contemplation (if by deep contemplation you mean a snicker and a snide thought) i came to a conclusion. Either one, he's a terre haute business who is reached the end of his rope, or he's trying to hitch hike. But, if he's hitch hiking, why the thumbs down sign? Well, either one, he doesn't know that you put your thumb in the direction you wish to go, or he's trying to hitch hike to hell. Quite frankly, i don't feel the need to hitch hike to hell, because i'm already there. And its alias is Rose-Hulman. Also, i think that i may have to find a different dress to formal. I don't think my order went through for the one that i REALLY want and now they website is saying they couldn't ship the dress until March 15. Well my formal is March 13. So i have no formal dress. :-( This makes me really sad b/c i was totally pumped about the dress that i had picked out. It was super hot! Ah well. I'm not sure what i'm going to do now b/c i don't really have time to go looking for a dress, and all the dresses that are being sold now aren't really my style. Way too flashy. For the record, i hate really immature people. And i never noticed how much people change from one year to another. For example, after my freshman year at college i as very different. But that is to be expected. But i am also very different than i was this time last year. And comparing myself to people younger than me (and not just freshmen) makes me wonder if i too was that immature. I have no doubt that i was. Hm...when i'm 40 i'll probably say the exact same thing about who i am right now. funny how that works. Well, i think i've procrastinated far too much and i should get some homework done before i have to go to rehearsal and pretend to be scottish for a while.

Oh man...what a day. Well, yesterday i had my oral inorganic exam. It went okay. i personally felt like a big moron, but dr. erwin said that i did very well. so hopefully he's right. So today i gave my final speech in speech class. It went okay i guess. I don't know really. Also, Dr. Miller had another blow up today. she stormed out of the classroom and said when we were ready to learn come get her. Well i got pissed and left because i'm not gonna sit there and let some prof berate me like that. Well after class i went up to her office and had a little chat with her. Interestingly enough she went back to the classroom and had a discussion with the students about why we were being so disruptive. But no one told her the real problem. So after she lectured me for a while about being professional, i told her that the biggest problem was it was difficult to remain attentive in her class b/c of her teaching style. She derives equations on the board for 50 minutes, and i love math just as much as the next guy...but geez! After watching that 50 minutes everyday for 10 weeks, it gets really boring!!! So hopefully she'll stop deriving and start showing us how to use this crap. Also today i got an IM spam and ended up spamming my whole IM list...and then i proceeded to get yelled at by everyone on my buddy list b/c obviously i'm too stupid to know when a friend sends me a real link and when they send a fake one. Oh well. Live and learn i guess. Overall, this is a pretty typical 9th week, and i'm all around in a bitchy mood. I did have my officer's meeting with Susan, and i told her the truth of the office, so that was fun. Hooray for beer! I also have an infection in my eye (haven't had one of those since i was a kid, ew) and my ears are sore b/c i slept on them funny last night. So this has all around been a very trying day. Tomorrow i have work and lab, so hopefully tomorrow will be a little bit better. Tomorrow we're blocking scenes for the musical and on thursday i get to practice my songs with the pit. So i feel like we're finally making progress on this show. The grand canyon isn't too far away, and i'll be there before you know it. Only 2 more weeks. I can do ANYTHING for 2 weeks. God be with me.

As promised this week was really busy, and next week is going to be even worse. I was supposed to be going to lafayette to see my big sis today, but all this damn snow. God i hate Indiana. It snowed all night last night and all day today. In fact it's still kind of snowing. And me being a misplaced southerner doesn't know how to drive in any of this, so i would have killed myself driving to Lafayette. So i stayed here instead. However, it worked out well though because i got a lot of homework done today and i get to go to Maze. Nothing really exciting happened this week at all so unfortunately i have no great stories to tell. Except i think it's really funny that today my roommate from Minnesota got his car stuck in the ice. hehehe. Silly boys! So today was Polar Ice Fest at Sonka's. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's when all these crazy people sit out on the patio of Sonka's Irish Pub and drink beer in the cold. I think it's really amusing that people tried to get me to go. They had two reasons for wanting to drag me out.
1. Because it's cool to sit outside in February in Indiana and drink beer
2. If you eat your hamburger outside you get a free hat

Well, they made two very large oversites.
1. I am from South Carolina. Cold to me is anything below 65. Therefore, sitting outside in 10 degree weather is frigid and hence ridiculous. I would have frozen to death out there.
2. I am a vegetarian. I do not eat hamburgers and have not eaten hamburgers for over 8 years. I don't plan on starting anytime soon.

Anyway, i found their arguments relatively amusing. Anyway, hopefully i'll have some good funny stories about Maze when i come back. Let's see, last year i had a guy a Triangle chapter at a different school hit on me. And when i told him that i was dating one of his brothers here at Rose, he just kind of laughed and said "so?" Oh, and someone also split beer all over my pants and i grabbed a guy's junk (not in a good way) because he touched my butt. So this year should prove to be equally as interesting. Brett promised he'd go through the maze with me this year though, so hopefully there will not be as much gropage since one of the brothers will be coming with me. Also i do get to go and shake my "dadunk a dunk" as my roommates like to call it on the dance floor with my best friend. Now, this dadunk a dunk thing i'm not so sure about. I think it's supposed to be a compliment, but i also think they may be telling me i have a big butt. Hmmmm....this is what happens when you live with a bunch of boys i guess. Hehehe, sometimes i feel like i live in a fraternity house. Especially on thursday nights.

So today, i have a serious attitude problem, and i need to get it fixed. So i'm gonna vent a little today. I suggest if you don't want to read some serious bitching you skip today. So, today was my big speech in speech class. I sucked hard core. Which kind of made me sad b/c i already get sick every morning before a big speech anyway. Then, this is where the problem comes in. In one of my classes today, i got yelled at for talking in class. I am not angry that i got yelled at in class. I deserved it, i was talking. However, here in lies the problem. She told our class today that her lecture should only be supplemental material and most of our learning should come from the book. Excuse me??!!! No! I figured out how much i pay a year for school (this is not including my rent and stuff for my house) i pay $26,520/yr to go to school at Rose-Hulman. That means that i pay $8,840/quarter. I have 4 4 credit hour classes. That totals to $2,210/class. I do not pay this woman $2,210 for her 10-week service to read a book! The book for this class cost $150. So if i had just gotten the book and not gone to class, i would have saved myself $2,060 for this class alone! Not to mention the time that i have spent in class and doing the homework. I won't even try to calculate that. So needless to say, i have discovered that this quarter, i have wasted over 2 grand on a class b/c all i really needed to do was just read the book. This does not make sense to me at all. And i'm very irritated about it in general. Also it doesn't help that i have another professor who says he'll spend the whole class period going over the homework, and then he lectures for 40 minutes and only leave 10 minutes of class time to answer questions. Does this seem right to you? The last time i checked, a whole class period meant 50 minutes. The only redeeming factor about today is the fact that my boyfriend is taking me out to a nice dinner and then we get to go hang out at the Tap Room for senior night. Also i bought my cap and gown today. That was pretty exciting. I just hope it fits when it comes. But honestly, at that point i don't think i'll really care. I'd go up on the stage naked to receive my diploma if necessary. I'm just so sick and tired of this school. I'm sick and tired of the professors with the imperialist attitudes and just the over all bull shit that goes along with this school. Hopefully going to work (not at Rose-Hulman) will make me feel a little better. Also, i have a new update on the Janet thing. Well, apparantly according to the newspaper today, Janet's little stunt was an accident. Part of her costume was still supposed to stay on. But i've also heard rumors that say it wasn't. I don't know, i watched the clip of her boob incident today, and it seemed like she knew it was coming. B/c she just kinda jerked around to show it off. I dunno, but i'm pretty sure if my boob was exposed on national TV, i'd know it pretty quick and cover up a lot quicker than she did. But maybe i'm just a little more modest in my young age. Well, after calculating exactly how much money i'm losing to this school, i feel a little bit better so i should probably skiddadle to work. Hopefully tomorrow will be cheerier.

So, the panthers lost. How depressing. But it was a good game. The commercials were not stellar, but let me tell you between Janet Jackson's boob, the streaker, and the New England kicker missing two field goals, the game was pretty exciting. So let's talk about this Janet Jackson boob thing. So, while sitting at the Tri Delta house watching the game, everyone around me was convinced it was accidental. But, i'm not quite so sure. She definitely had a pasty, and i dunno it just seems a little strange to me. But on the other hand, why put something that riscee on TV? Especially when you know it's going to be broadcast on public stations. Hm, who knows. Well i read the CBS web site, and they profusely apologize. Some people at CBS tend to think justin did it on purpose without Janet's knowledge, but others say (especially Timberlake) that it was strictly an accident. Either way, it was still pretty hilarious! I just hope that when i'm her age, i look that fabulous. In other news, this week is gonna suck hard core because of classes, but the Grand Canyon is only a short time away! I can't wait! It's going to be terrific. A whole week of just me and my best friend, i couldn't want anything more. And then right after quarter break, my parents are coming up to visit. How wonderful?! Hopefully i'll be able to post some stuff this week, but don't count on it.

Ah, it's 9:30 on a Sunday morning, and i'm awake. Why?? Because i have 200 crows cawing at my window. I thought birds were supposed to fly south for the winter! So WHY are they outside my window? In case they didn't notice it has been in the single digits or below this entire week! Why don't they be smart (like i should have been) and go somewhere warm?! On that note, this weather is ridiculous! I sit in my room with my space heater full blast and the thermostat up to 72, and i'm still freezing! Well, enough of my ranting, time for a short not very interesting story. So last night a whole bunch of people went karaoking. I LOVE karaoke! So anyway, up in the front of the bar there is a table of about 7 guys, all of them three sheets to the wind and still drinking. It must have been a bachelor party or somethingy, they were definitely too old to be celebrating someone's 21st, but that's how they were celebrating. So anyway, so jackie, spring, stephanie and I go up and sing Kokomo. It was cool, but then on the way back a woman stops Jackie. "Hey don't you remember me? I filled out your tickets for you a while back?!" Well Jackie promptly replies, "Oh, you must mean Audra!" and grabs me and pulls me to this woman's table. Oh we remember her alright! Even though it WAS my 21st when this happened, i remember her. She asked me to sing a Melissa Etheridge song, and I was feeling jovial so why not? Well, then i get the info to watch out b/c this woman is a swinger! So she was reminiscing about the last time she saw me, and i got the hell out of dodge super fast! Well then, i go up to sing later, and that drunk group of guys i talked about earlier, well one of them decided he wanted to dance with me. Now, flash back to earlier in the night. They had already sampled some of their dance moves, and their personal favorite seemed to bring the sprinkler. I kid you not! So, he comes up to me (while i'm singing) and looks like he's going to dance with me. Well, i'm just praying that he won't b/c i think i'd pee myself laughing! Well, instead he walks over to Jackie and Steph who were standing close by. He asks them if i would mind if he danced with me. Well, let me tell you, without those girls i don't know what i would have done. They promptly informed him that my boyfriend is the jealous type and probably wouldn't like it. Oh and by the way my boyfriend (Scott Herber) is walking by right now so watch out because Scott is evil. Needless to say the drunk guy asked if he could take him, and they told him that i was the one he really needed to worry about. I'm fiesty you know. Hehehe. So now i have two boyfriends. Anyway, the guy didn't try to dance with me anymore, but as he was walking back to his seat, he still had some crazy dance move going on, and jackie yells "WHITE BOY SHUFFLE!" Well, i lost it and had to laugh for a moment. I don't know if anyone else in the bar heard it, but they knew i was laughing at him b/c they all started laughing too. So that's the story for my bar adventures last night. Ah, karaoke at rafters, what could be finer?