Wednesdays hate me, and I try to love them. It's a very abusive relationship. Not even counting all the classes I have to sit through, it's also the day when I have to go to the one class I don't enjoy this semester, the one day my club meets up, and the day Meredith and I go to the gym. It's my second lab in a row and also the day before most of my work is due in Chinese and my studying frenetically for the test.

This week's particular Wednesday was particularly nasty. The class I despise was in a completely different building on the farthest corner that I have never seen before. In the basement. A super sketchy basement where horror movies start. And then it was a chemical engineering advising class, but being a mechanical engineer, the advisors just gave me a sheet to fill out and ignored me. Not that I minded. It was a 4 semester plan for this and next year. Guys, please. I have every semester until graduation planned out. This is just rude thinking I don't know what I'm doing for even next semester.

And then Chinese, which was interesting. Meredith and I are not the youngest in that class, like we had originally thought. Pretty nice. But I had to book it from class to the calculus test I was scheduled for, in the testing center that was once again in a horror-esque basement hallway. Seriously, we have all these nice new building but we can't install an extra light or two in the dark poorly lit basements that everyone needs to use? Whatever, but the testing room was packed to full capacity. I have never seen so many people be so eerily quiet. Oh well.

Human event was after that, I still don't see the point of that class, if I wanted to take a philosophy class I would've signed up for one. I'm not good at philosophizing, it's just awkward. And then homework jam session in Meredith's room. Back to my room while she was off on some group event with her mentors, and then we hit the gym. It was freaking packed. Who are all these people, and why are they out at eleven on a Wednesday night? I don't understand these kids.

Thursday, my lecture is cancelled, so it sound like I might be doing a major homework jam in-between my two classes so I don't have to do anything this weekend.

Monday was pretty uneventful, aside from the fact that I was never in my room until I went to bed. Between classes and watching the super religious zealot preaching away on the stage by the Student Center (which, by the way, I am now apparently a Sin Devil going to hell for all eternity) and studying for tests I just remembered were this week, I just didn't have time to go back to my room.

Let's start with the screaming Jesus-Man.

He's been here for a couple days now, screaming scripture and other such nonsense at everyone who walks by. Because everyone on campus is either a pothead, gay/lesbian, muslim, a porn watcher, or a masturbator, and we are all going to hell. The entire campus. I guess that should make for an interesting party once we get there. But today he was on the main outdoor stage, and quite the group of people had congregated around to argue with him. One girl asked why he was there to interfere with how she was living her life (and no, don't ask, it wasn't me. I was just there to watch for the giggles). He claimed to love her enough to tell her that she was going to hell and there was really no way to do anything about it. Also, apparently only Christians can be judgemental of others, but non-christians who judge are hellbound. It was pretty amusing to say the least. I hope he's here again soon.

I have a Calc test tomorrow, and I'm hoping it's more like the written work than the online work. Because the online questions are ridiculously absurd. Hopefully the fact that I sort of took this class last year can help me. But it's been a long study session this week so far, so that should pay off.

Engineering lab today was amazing. We were learning to use a program by writing programming into it to plot and calculate long bits of data for us. I have to say, it was pretty cool. Except one kid in my class can barely work his online school account, so it was kind of tedious teaching him how to program in commands. I still don't think he got it.

High school lied when they said they were preparing us. Tests are held in completely different ways, labs are written in completely foreign ways, and my human event teacher told us to write our paper in first person with pronouns if we wanted to and that we could cite however we wanted. I think the entire class had an aneurism when that tumbled out of his mouth. He basically told me to forget the past six years of english classes and write like I once did in 4th grade. I still can't believe it. I think he's trolling us.

Still haven't made cookies, between my never being in my room and when I'm there Ramesh is always off on some sort of adventure. But we did have an awesome study jam session tonight for everyone's classes: Calc, Bio, Chem, Physics, I kind of studied Chinese by myself. But it's getting late, my physics lab was finally printed, and I think I need some serious sleep.

I guess there are only so many ways I can say I went to class before my blog starts to get boring. But, Sunday did start an interesting battle of wills. It started when Ramesh messed up Ben's computer settings when he left it on and logged in. So he and his friends moved her bed out to the hallway. And jack was on Ramesh's team, so they took all his dorm doors off the hinges. Aly and Valerie, my suitemates, were feeling left out until someone covered their entire door in Sticky notes. So they covered Brady's door with pictures of flowers and Justin Beiber and unicorns. And when Logan was visiting us, Aly took his glasses he had left laying around. So he joined Ramesh's team, and we switched their mattresses and dressers. Like, with the bedding on them and everything. And that's the story of how I am now in the middle of a prank war. I pray nothing goes too terribly bad, and this doesn't escalate completely out of hand.

Monday, classes, blah blah blah, went to my subsystem meeting for the Satellite club, and am now working with half to team to do Thermal analysis. As well as modelling in a program that I still don't have access to because of my newb-ishness to college. Which is a shame. But the club seems really nice and patient with me, despite the fact that I am the only underclassman there. Not even any sophomores to bridge the gap.

Tuesday,engineering lab, we made an embarrassment of a bridge that had quite possibly the worst weight ratio I've ever seen. Wednesday, lots of classes, lots of running around. Brought John with me to SDSL, he seemed super interested in the project. We talked about various things, fundraising mostly, then I went back to my room to do work until Meredith showed up and we went to the gym. I can add weights to my bench press now!

Thursday, not much happened. It's Thursday, what would you expect from it? Friday, Tristan and I went to the magical Science and Space building. I seriously want to just move in and live there. Got next semester straightened out, I can register as soon as classes are released. Ate lunch in Barrett, with lots of gelato (I love this college schedule) and played Magic until I had to go to Chinese. Afterwards, I found out my dad was coming home, so I threw some clothes in a bag and hopped on the intercampus shuttle with Tristan, whose mom was kind enough to drop me off at home. Found the house empty aside from my sister, so I just did homework until everyone got home.

Made a new pot of tea, and tried to watch Star Trek but it was just too late. Saturday, I had the house all to myself for the first half of the day, and finished most of my homework for the week. With tea. Lots of tea. Never enough time in a day for tea. Got ready, went to lunch with the rest of the family for my mom's birthday, and had an awesome time out for the weekend. Sunday, faced my brother with a brand new Magic deck and pretty much played the morning away after an awesome breakfast made by my mom. Then it was time for me to head back to the dorms.

First we went shopping around, returned some useless cords to Best Buy, I got some more workout pants, and lots of baking stuff. Tons, actually. Can't wait to actually make it. However, Ramesh had dinner with her family so we didn't make any last night. Sadly. I did laundry instead. As much as I enjoy going home, I can't do it often. Messes up my schedule too much. Laundry om Sunday night is not advisable. It's why I do it at like 6 in the morning. No one is awake for hours. And Meredith and I hit the gym after that. But no. No gym for me in almost a week. For shame. Hopefully she's feeling better tonight and we can go. Poor thing is sick today.

So now it is Monday, and I realize I haven't posted in a week. Apologies again. I'll try to be more regular than that, but not as much as every day. Classes are finally starting to kick in, so I have things to do with my time besides just piddling away on the computer. As much as that saddens me. So, see you tonight, maybe, or tomorrow. Off to homework!

Wow, I am truly sorry for not posting recently. I didn't think this big a gap would happen. Like I said before, my Tuesdays and Wednesdays are really busy, Wednesdays particularly, so I don't plan on having elaborate posts on those days. But then Thursday struck me down with a cold, so I just tried to do my homework as fast as possible and head to bed. Friday was similar. And now I've slept most of my Saturday away. This little cold just sort of punched me in the gut by surprise. Again, sorry. Now, to recap I suppose.

Tuesday, once more, was only exciting for my Engineering lab. Only this time we practiced designing and brainstorming. We had to reimagine a shopping cart. I may or may not have cheated a bit, as I had done this same project freshman year in intro engineering, and I knew what was considered good ideas. But I think a lot of the guys in my class have never been shopping in their lives. Some of their designs were more dangerous/unwieldy/impractical than the ones already in use. Ridiculous.

Wednesday, my physics lab was canceled for the short week, which I didn't mind. It was also the second meeting I went to for SDSL. I am now officially on the Structure and Mechanisms Subsystem team, or SMS for short (there are a lot of acronyms in this club. I'll try to explain them before I shorten them). We talked about the budget spread sheet, and set up task lists for each team, and I am trying to get the modeling programs they use so I can really be helpful when we get going in full swing. I found out that I can only download it as an upperclassmen, which was kind of a bummer. But I made this club an honors contract project, so my professor managed to pull some strings for me.

Gah, this is just getting too awesome.

Thursday, not very busy, I finally got sick. Now that I think about it, I think I may or may not have gotten it from a lab partner on Tuesday. Weird, because we all sort of avoided him like he had the plague (which he did, in a way). Oh well, lots of tea, soup, and juice followed. Skye and I met with an old friend for dinner we hadn't seen since Comicon, that was nice. Until we were trapped in the student center/cafeteria for an hour because of the dust storm that rolled over the campus.But we didn't mind, we just talked for a bit about stuff. I like how in high school, the first thing people asked was your grade, and in college it's what major you're doing. Just an interesting difference I noticed.

Friday, I finished the last dregs of homework I skipped for sleep. Turns out my self teaching for the last few problems was unnecessary. The professor said we didn't cover the substitutions as much as she would've liked, so she wouldn't be grading the last problems. I could've slept in another hour! Let the inwardly raging fit ensue. But the day had started overcast, and I managed to pull through the class with the last of the tissues in my pocket before finding that the rain the sky had been promising was finally unleashed. Well then. It wasn't a cold rain, so I figured it'd be safe to walk through. I kept to the overhangs as much as I could; I was still sick, after all. Tristan and I partied inside the student center until we were joined by Skye and Taylor, and turned it into a lunch date.

By the time we had to depart for our classes, the rain had subsided, thankfully. Chinese was uneventful, but Meredith and I raced back to the dorms on our bikes, trying and failing to avoid puddles. I waited for a bit in my room, then Tristan escaped his class and we decided to go fetch ramen for dinner. That soup was delicious. And definitely what I needed. It was also Tristan's first boba. I love boba. I don't know if I've said that already, but I'll say it again. We exchanged music in my dorm once we got back, then decided to wander campus again in search of an adventure.

Somehow our wanderings brought us to Pop Culture Paradise, a comic and card shop right off campus. It was Friday Night Magic, and the place was packed. We rummaged through the card bins, he bought some, I found myself clutching at some X-Men comics, and we left there spending money we probably shouldn't have, but oh well. Now I had something to read while I was in bed all day Saturday. He wound up leaving for home around nine, but Meredith got off work and dragged me to the gym with her. Exercise is good when you're sick, right? Because I certainly felt better while working out.

One more cup of tea after my shower before bed, and then I crawled into the covers and welcomed the end of a very busy day.

Today, I slept in. I actually, physically stayed asleep past seven in the morning. Granted, it was only until eight thirty, but that's besides the point. I crawled out of bed to grab my computer and watched movies all morning, trying to just relax and rest. Some soup for lunch, lots of tea today, and then a glorious six hour nap. I think that really helped. Unfortunately, every hour spent sleeping is an hour I wasn't doing homework this weekend. Guess tomorrow is going to be busy. But I am feeling better, even if I'm not completely back to normal. I know I put a lot of you through some worry, what with my disappearance from the internet, I'll try to keep this a little more regular, even if the posts are just quick "Hey, I'm alive, everything's okay" blurbs. Maybe I'll feed my blog some Activia or something.

Don't expect anything amazing from tomorrow. It's just going to be laundry, homework, and lots of sleeping. I think sleep is the greatest thing ever. Wish I could do it more.

Today was a holiday! Meaning no classes. A little bumming, but excellent for homework. I read almost an entire book today, did my physics for the next week and a half, and even caught up my calculus to being ahead of schedule again. And I even managed to get my loan sorted out. Kind of. But it's on track to being solved, so hopefully it's done in time.

Anyways, I made friends with Payton's suitemate, Sky. She is an amazing artist and I wish I had her skills. Her inks and proportions are just spot on. We were joking about writing a comic together, but it might just become a reality. At least, it would be cool. Because let's be honest here, I am one bad-ass author (okay, not really, but I can pretend). Not to mention we maybe geeked out every ten minutes when we remembered something and asked the other. She likes Dead Like Me, I like Repo! The Genetic Opera, we both just melted when we started debating comics. As a bonus, she's also a Whovian (someone obsessed with Doctor Who). And she wants to watch Supernatural. I smell a marathon coming on. Thank you Netflix.

For dinner, we were going to head to this Persian place called Haji-Baba, and make Ramesh order everything for us. It was a fair walk down the street, but we managed it. Kind of hot, I wore the wrong kind of shoes, but still an enjoyable trip walking with everyone.

Haji-Baba was closed.

Well, then. After hiking all the way back to the corner across from the dorms (seriously, why did I wear these shoes?) we stopped at Taco Bell, debated about Thai food, and somehow wound up in a pizza place. Very good pizza, I barely managed to eat most of a slice and a wing. Everyone else in a physics defying way tucked away at least two slices, a wing or two, and some of them even ate more than that. Where is all that matter going? The two tiniest people in the group put away the most food. Just by consuming that much mass, your own mass has to change. Or laws just don't matter any more. This confused me all the way back to the dorms.

Which also involved a trip to Taco Bell for even more food, despite the pizza we still had in boxes to bring back to our rooms. Ugh, so much food. It was a little ridiculous. But probably not as ridiculous as Brandon (guy on my floor) wheeling around the hallways on a unicycle he just happened to bring along. I'm worried about bringing enough soap and packing my toothbrush during move-in, and he obviously was worried abut his death defying toy. Skye tried it, and I told her to get off. I was not going to explain to her parents why their daughter was dead or in a coma.

I finished the last little dregs of homework while Ramesh continued to eat (seriously, though, WHERE is it all going?). Then I figured I would try to make my blog a little more regular. Tomorrow is my engineering lab, super excited. I think we're actually going to be doing something besides learned lab safety, so that'll be an interesting three hours.

Oh my goodness was this particular weekend busy.

Friday, classes got out typically and I went back to my room. Then Miggy had this great idea to go to the taco shop right off campus; and boy was it good. Pretty cheap, definitely college budget friendly. But that left us thirsty, so we set off to find some boba. It's this asian drink, not quite a slushy or a tea, but it has these little fruit jelly balls on the bottom that you can drink up with the juice. Very delicious. It was Ramesh's first time on a tram, so it was pretty amusing watching her on the train. After we got our boba, we went on a merry ravaging of the asian supermarket inside the marketplace, and bought tons of berries like raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries.

It didn't take long for us to return home and fall asleep.

 Saturday took a while to get rolling. Nobody else wakes up early, but that didn't matter really once I turned on my computer. The new season of Doctor Who premiered, and I managed to catch a live stream from England, which meant I watched it hours before it even aired in America. I've now watched the season premiere episode at least five times. That took up most of my morning. But I was expecting my mom to come soon, so she could drop off my books and we'd maybe catch an early dinner together before she went home. What I wasn't expecting was my dad to come with her. He had been off on a business trip, and he wasn't due back for a few weeks.

Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised and more than a little happy to spend the day with him. We wound up getting a few little doodads for my laptop and then went to dinner. The waitress asked what margarita I wanted (do I look old enough for that yet?) and then asked if we wanted separate checks. Who was she going to split it between? Before they dropped me back off at the dorms we made a quick ice cream run to fill my freezer (the cooler in the nearby market had broken, so Ramesh and I had been unable to previously buy ice cream). Then it was a sad goodbye, but I know they will be back for Parent's Weekend, so it wasn't really that bad of a goodbye.

Not two shakes after I finish putting stuff away does Ramesh come crashing in and asking if I want to make cookies.

Okay? She, a half dozen friends, and I all make our way up to the dorm kitchen, which is on the sixth floor in the lounge. There's a flurry of cocoa powder, PAM spray, and little dough balls flying all over the kitchen, not to mention the volleyball someone brought up to kick around like a soccer ball. I have some very weird friends. the cookies weren't even done baking until almost 10 at night, and by then I had gone to get the ice cream I had just brought back from the store. We made ice cream sandwiches out of the cookies, and then they went off to terrorize the campus while I went to be. IT was late, the monsters. I am not a night person.

Ever.

Sunday, well, today wasn't too eventful. I met Payton and a friend of hers in the dining hall, and wound up touring the campus with them to show her friend around while Ramesh was still sleeping the previous night away. Everyone has gone home for the extended weekend, so even during the day the campus is eerily empty. And hot. It's just going to be too hot for too long, and then it will just suddenly drop in temperature without warning. Ugh. I hate this climate. Anyways, after that I made a smoothie with the brand new blender my parents got me yesterday, worked like a charm. I make one damn good smoothie. And then we sort of chilled. I'm the odd ball in my suite. I like it cold. They don't. I wake up early. They don't. I clean up my half of the room. Ramesh doesn't. BAH.

Oh well. And tomorrow is most definitely homework day. Seeing as I don't have a whole lot to do. And I haven't exactly done a lot of it so far. But oh well. And probably laundry tomorrow as well. Seeing as no one is home in the dorms. I like it.

If no one else is in the dorms at the moment, do quiet hours still go into effect?