beautiful day

So today is an absolutely gorgeous day in Evansville. The high was in the mid - low 70s. It was sunny. I'm very tempted to go outside and do homework, but I know I would be less likely to study outside. We were supposed to have our first play-off game tonight for IM soccer tournament tonight, but it was moved to Wednesday on Monday b/c apparently lots of people complained. Last night it rained though, so a lot of the games were canceled, and all those games were moved to Wednesday, so our games was moved to Thursday. and if we win that, then we play on mOnday for the championship! Woo Hoo! I would be happy if we won. :) So tonight, in addition to Phi Mu stuff, I have quite a bit fo homework... everytime I seem to get close to being caught up, the more stuff gets piled on, ugh! I am nothing compared to Amanda who probably won't be sleeping this week. I really hope I don't have a point like that this semester, but I'm sure I will.

Family Weekend

So this weekend was Family Weekend at UE. It was fun. My mom and sister, and sister's best friend came down to hang out. They got in on Friday night, but I had to work until close on Friday, so they went to the hotel and went to bed. The next morning, I met them at 9am at their hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, we went to my apartment, and showed them around. I was proud to show it off. This is the best living situation I've been in. We each have our own rooms, which is nice if we want to get away, but we still hang out in the living room and stuff. Anyways, then I gave them a tour of the campus, b/c quite a bit has changed since mom and Chels were here last, and Danielle has never been here, so it was cool. I showed them the new student center, which is almost done, and the new business building. Then we went grocery shopping, and got some gas. After that, we hung out and played Wii a little. Then we went to the mall for a while and dinner at Chile's. And then they left. They had obligations this morning, so I came home and passed out about 10. I was so tired. It was nice though. This morning, I woke up, and was so sore. I couldn't figure out why. I think it was from playing the Wii yesterday. So I took a shower, and turned on the football games, and have been chilling out. I have a meeting today at 2, but I have to be there at 2, a meeting at 4:30, and a meeting at 6:30. Joy to me! Somewhere in there, I need to do homework that I have put off all weekend. Go me. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

ladies night

So on Tuesday night I played an IM soccer game, which we won, and then last night, we played 2 IM games back-2-back. We won both and were completely exhausted by the end of it. The second game was against Femme Fubar, which is the theater IM team. They're pretty pushy, so not only did I get tripped and hurt my knee, elbow, and arm, but Amanda got taken out of the game with a bad shoulder injury.

So after the games, i jumped in the shower and Amanda iced her shoulder, and we got ready and went over to one of the frat houses for ladies night. It was fun. I think we were there for a total of 40 minutes tops. When we walked in the door, Amanda and I had a shot of Kamakaze, a vodka and lemonade, and then went to another room and a shot of Kalooa (sp?). I didn't like it since it tasted like coffee, but Amanda loved it. I saw a friend pass the door and I went to go say hi, and when I returned Amanda had done 2 more shots.

Then we started walking around again, and we stopped by a room with this guy I like in it. So we stopped in and started talking, Amanda was pretty far gone, and about 5 minutes after being in there, Amanda was like, I'm going to sit down, let me know when you want to leave. When I looked over at here, she was laying down, and so I turned to the guy I was tlaking to and said that I better get her home. Now, I was a little drunk, but not nearly that bad. So I got Amanda up, and got her home, and into bed. Then I went to bed.

I was awoken this morning by Amanda with zero color in her face, apparently she had thrown up 3 times already. She had chugged the water I set out next to her (not a good idea, if you've ever been drunk you know this... i learned this in Edinburgh). So I spent the hour before class taking care of her some more. It was interesting. She feels better now, which is good, and will no tbe touching alcohol for a while.

So this weekend is family weekend, and mom and chels, and chels's friend Danielle are coming up. I'm excited to see them. That's about all for now. Just had to tell my funny story. Tonight I am studying, going to a meeting, and going to watch a soccer game. Woo hoo! Hope everyone has had a good week.

A typical weekend at college....

So this weekend was jut your typical average weekend at school...

Friday night I went to work, and got off at 8 (an occurrence I'm not expecting to happen again anytime soon), and then went to see "The Women" with my roommates Sam, Emily, and Amanda. It was so much fun. It was a chick flick through and through, and I highly suggest it, if only to hear the line, "Would you like a face lift in a jar?" "This is my face, deal with it." :) After the movie we walked out to my car to find a big green bug sitting on the hood, and a smaller one on top. Well we figured it would fall off while I was driving back to school, but as I pulled out of the parking lot, the bug was still there. I then proceeded to try to knock the bug off with some encouragement from my roommates, and believe it or not, that little bug stayed on all the way back home, and the little one on top did too. We were shocked!!! Then we proceeded to watch a few episodes of Gilmore Girls.

Saturday the plan was to get up, do some chores, studying, laundry, and grocery shopping, but I got a phone call from my friend Stephanie asking me to meet her for lunch at Cici's, her treat. Well, really, how can you turn that down? Then we went to Bed, Bath and Beyond, b/c they were having a sale, and Steph had a coupon. Then we went back to my place to get Amanda, and we proceeded to Plato's closet, since it was having a major sale, and all proceeded to spend too much money on amazing designer clothes for cheap such as a gap shirt for $4, a limited shirt for $6, a pair of American Eagle jeans for $12, ect... After that, we dropped Steph off at her car, and proceeded to Wal-Mart where Amanda and I were stopped in the parking lot by a cute guy trying to sell us stuff (go figure). He had a great line though, "You've got something in your eye" Amanda: "I do?" (tries to get it out) "A twinkle." Smooth, real smooth. So we went grocery shopping b/c we had little to zero food left, and then went back home and cooked dinner and went to passover.

Passover is the Fraternities version of bid day. It's where the men who rushed come out and show who they pleged and then proceed to jump on their new brothers and get passed over them. Of course, on top of that, all the brothers are painted head to toe in their fraternity colors. I love Sig Ep, so I was cheering the loudest for them. After that, we came back home to chill out before the parties, and I got a text msg from steph saying she had caught her kitchen on fire. i went over to her apartment (b/c she was going ot join us tonight) and made sure she was ok and brought some of the stuff she had bought earlier, but left in my car. She told me, she would join us later, and I went home and got ready. I think it took us about an hour to get ready. We went to SAE first, and got there about 11:15. We were greeted by a friend when we walked in who got us some Summer Brew, which tasted pretty good, a little like cide rin fact. It wasn't though, not at all... it was a case of beer, vodka, lime juice, and lemonade. A red solo cup of that and Amanda and I were both feeling it, her more than me. We then went to Sig Ep, and spent about an hour there. We met up with one of her small groupers who pledged Sig Ep, Matt. Then we came home and went to bed.

So Amanda and I had both signed up to do Race for the Cure this morning, but neither of us set our alarms to get up... ooops. So we both slept in. Amanda did get up and go to church though. I got up around noon, and got my laundry together, and walked out with my laundry card, my ID, and my laundry stuff. Well, when I got to the laundry room, I put my ID in the machine instead of my laundry card and got locked out of my room for about an hour... i didn't have my cell phone with me either. After I finally got into my room, I did the dishes and took a shower, and then had to go to Exec meeting for Phi Mu. Next was Formal meeting.

When I got back, I proceeded to finally work on homework, and about 9, Amanda and I decided we wanted to study outside. We went to a newly renovated place on campus and sat out here and studied until about 11:30 when we decided we'd call Matt, and tell him to bring us some food, but it took him so long, that we finally just went into Hale ourselves to meet him. We spent the next hour and half not studying at all, and then decided we needed to go home and go to bed. Amanda and I were walking back and noticed there was zero traffic at the intersection on Weinbach and Walnut (that never happens). So we decided to pull a "Notebook" the scene where they lie down in the middle of the street and watch the lights change, except we didn't lay down (too paranoid) so we just sat. During that time, a car came by and got stopped by the red light and looked at us. He waved, and kinda just looked at us, he didn't even notice his light was green until I pointed to it. It was really really funny. About a half hour after that, a security guard came around and asked waht we were doing, and we said we were watching the lights, and he was like, umm... could you not do that in the middle of the street, and we just laughed, and said sure. :) Now I'm back in my room gettign ready to go to bed, so I can actually be awake tomorrow. :)

Good night all, and welcome to college. :)

This is Everyday. I love this song... Oh and the light show was amazing!!!

pictures

So the top one is Taylor Swift, she's in bottom right hand corner in the blue shiny dress.
The one next to it is me and Amanda at the concert
The middle left one is JoeDon, Gary, and Joe (the Rascal Flatts) singing
The middle right one, you can kinda see how the stage is set up, and 1 of the 4 giant screens. they had.
The bottom left one is the Rascal Flatts singing.
The bottom right one is the stage.

An Amazing Night!!!

So last night was the Rascal Flatts concert! It was absolutely amazing!!! Amanda and I left about 3 central time and got to Louisville around 6 eastern time. The concert started at 8, so we decided to meet one of our alum sorority sisters for dinner. We were going to meet her at the Hard Rock Cafe, and so we found somewhere to park and walked down to the Hard Rock Cafe. When we got to the top of the street there was people standing there handing out wristbands, and we were like, ummm... what now. Turns out the Ryder Cup is in town and the had blocked off that street (which is similar to Beale, just shorter) and you had to buy a $5 Ryder's cup pin to get onto the street. We were like... umm.. that's ok. So we found another resturaunt, The Old Saghetti Factory, and met Shelley there. So we had a quick dinner, and briefly caught up, and then Amanda and I had to continue onto the concert.

So we got to the concert, which was at the Expo center, and immediately hit major traffic getting in, but we got in pretty quickly considering, and we found a spot to park, and we got into Freedom Hall without very much trouble at all. We were sitting on the upper level not straight back, but kind of in a corner. Before we went to our seats though,w ewent to the bathroom, in which there was already a line out the door for. Go figure. So we found our seats and there were girls sitting in them, so we got the usher to take care of it for us, and basically as soon as we sat down the concert started (we timed it good).

First up was Taylor Swift, and she played for about 45 minutes, she played all her hits. That was the main person Amanda came for. The stage was amazing... There was the main stage, and then it came out on the sides and created a walkway about 50 feet from the main stage so the band could walk around, and in side that walkway area fans were sitting... sooo jealous, fyi. Anyways, then there was about a hlaf hour intermission while the got the Rascal Flatts stage set up. Amanda and I went to go get some t-shirts before the smalls were all sold out. That was exciting.

Anyways we came back and waited for the concert to begin, and then they did, and it was sooo cool. Words cannot even describe. For example the entrance was ladden with fireworks and stirs coming down from teh ceiling where they were. It was amazing. That's all I can say about it. They played for about an hour and a half, so the concert was done around 11 eastern time. Then the fun part came fo getting out of the parking lot, which took a half hour, but it gave us time to get a hold of another sister living in Louisville, who never answers her phone.

We got a hold of Mel, and said lets go to Starbucks and chill, but the Starbucks we orginially were looking for didn't exist and so we had one of our friends on the phone giving us directions to another one, which we found, but it was closed. So we met her in the Kroger parking lot behind the Starbucks. But it was a little cold, and Amanda had to go to the bathroom, so we decided to go to a Denny's we had passed earlier. So we made our way to the Denny's and each had really random things. I had some bacon, toast, and a slice of pumpkin pie with apple juice. Amanda had some really really really cheesy cheese fries and some sort of mago-cherry drink. Mel had an oreo milkshake. We had a blast catching up. We were there for aout an hour just talking. Our server kept giving us weird looks b/c we'd ordered such strange things, but we had fun with him. We decided that the Denny's in the crrepy part of Louisville, where we were, will forever be a commerative spot. :)

Then Amanda and I drove home and got back around 2:30. We both had class in the morning, so we pretty much passed out as soon as we got back. So that was my amazing night, and today I start back at Texas Roadhouse up here. Joy to me, but roommate night is tonigth and we're going ot go see The Women. :) Hope everyone had a good week and A good weekend.

New girls and Ike

So my day began very interesting. I woke up around 7 to fire truck after fire truck after fire truck going by for about the next 5 hours. I also heard what sounded like pouring down rain, but it wasn't. In fact, it was 60 mile per hour gusts of wind! Hurricane Ike had come to Indiana with a vengeance. When I got up and went walking around their were trees down every where and a few power lines. In fact, a few houses had caution tape around them because of the amount of damage that was done. Trees and power lines are down all over the city. A few of the university buildings are without power including my apartment building from last year and the sorority suites. In fact, one of my classes has been canceled because my teacher had damage done to his house by the wind. Woo hoo!

Today is also the day that we got our new girls. :-D After all the annoyingness of recruitment it all comes down to this afternoon when we watched our new girls walk in the door. It was so exciting! Then, the excitement slowly dies down and we got to see who our new girls were... there were a few familiar faces, but many of the girls we loved had gone somewhere else. The girls we got I think are going to be good as well, but I'm still a little worried. I learned some things that I kind of think I would have rather been in the dark about. I can't do anything about it now though. All we can do is make the best of what we have.

I am very ready to be a regular student, and not a Phi Mu all the time student. I think it's jsut because recruitment wore me out. I am so looking forward to Thursday though!

fun things!

So about 2 or 3 weeks ago I found out that Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are preforming in Louisville on the 18th of September. At the time I thought, wouldn't that be the coolest concert to see? I bet I can't get anyone to go with me (I usually seem to be the only one with money of my friends). So I've had it in the back of my mind for a while now. The other day I mentioned to my roommate Amanda that they were playing, and she was like we should totally go! I was way excited. I looked up ticket prices and they were about $60 including the convience charge. I told her and she was like... let's do it! I was like SWEET!!!! So today I bought the tickets and we are offically going to Louisville to see a concert, for the most part, on a whim. :) Oh, and if you haven't figured it out yet, the 18th is on a Thursday. It's a week from today in fact. We are leaving about 2:45 and will get there around 5:45 (2 hour drive, but they're an hour ahead). The concert is at 8, so we're going to eat dinner with some friends who live in Louisville. After the concert we'll drive back because we each have class the next morning, mine at 9 and hers at 10.

The best part about it is, that Recruitment ends on Sunday, which means I'll be able to get caught up on all my homework, and not have to worry about it that night. Woot!

Speaking of recruitment... we had our first night last night. It was so good. All the girls did great talking to the PNMs (potential new members), and pretty much everything went off perfectly. Now let's talk numbers. We have 47 women currently in our chapter (we lost a lot of seniors). 3 of those women are in Harlaxton, another 7 are Gamma Chis meaning they are technically unaffiliated until Sunday. So that leaves 37. Last night we had 11 with night classes, so that left us with 26 women. 4 of us are rotation leaders, dropping us to 22, and we have 2 refernce chairmen, 20, and our membership director isn't allowed to talk to women, 19. About 130 women signed up to go through recruitment. Each party has an average of 26 women in it. Obviously 19 to 26 is not a good ratio. So inorder to help with this delima, we had some sisters from Indiana University (Delta Alpha chapter) to help us with recruitment. That was pretty cool. We got to hear about their recruitment, which is a little different.

So last night went pretty well. We had a few girls that had to take doubles, but that's ok, b/c it was a lot fewer than would have had to. It's kind of akward to be in a double though. I wa sin one when I went through, and I'm pretty shy, so I didn't really talk a lot, and it's hard on the other side b/c you have to keep the PNMs engaged, and if they have completely opposite interests, it's hard.

Tonight will be better, we only have 3 or 4 with night classes, so that's good. Tonight it philnathropy night when they hear about our national philanthropy (Children's Miracle Network), our local philanthropy (Riley Hospital for Children), and out finances (how much their bill will be).

So yeah, that's about it. The only other exciting thing about today was that we had a really good discussion on whether the interent is a good source of propaganda, and we deicded yes and no. Hope everyone has a good day and a good weekend.

I love Footprints in the Sand. My friend Joana sung it to TJ and Rachel at their rehearsal dinner, and I have loved it ever since. I dunno why it's been on my mind lately, but it has been. I tried to suggest it for our senior song, but Carrie Underwood's "Whenever You Remember" won out. It's cool though. I like that one a lot too. I should have put it on here. Oh well.

I'm making a playlist of songs that kind of represent me and ones that I really just like. It's kind of fun actually. I've spent that past hour or so on a site called playlist.com. It's absolutely amazing. You can type in any work or artist and searches the web for any sites containing those songs. I love it. Now I'm going ot go fill out paperwork for the TRH up here. Joy to me. :)

As I sit here studying for a quiz I have in less than 12 hours, I am listening to classical music in hopes that all the studies are true and you remember more when you listen to it. I also thought it would keep me more on task because then I wouldn't be singing along with every song and getting distracted. I've spent the whole weekend doing Phi Mu stuff, and I will spend the entire week doing the same, and at this point, I"m kind of in the "whatever" stage. It's almost over. Earlier I was reading through my planner trying to find what chapters my quiz was over, and something else caught my eye... "5 story ideas for Sept. 19 article due at 9 am"... crap. I've spent part of my night thinking or article ideas, and here's what I came up with:

1. Race For the Cure (Sept. 21) - What is it and how is UE participating?

2. How UE sororities prepared for their new members.

3. Is sleep really necessary for a college student -- student's busy schedules and they keep themselves organized.

4. Do Orientation Leaders really keep up with their small groups and how?

5. Student's thoughts on the presidential candidates and their VPs.

Surely one of those will work. Well anyways. I just thought I'd pop on and write something, not really b/c I had anything to say, but really because I'm still getting off topic because my Mass Communications Theory book is really hard to read at 11:45 at night. :) Yay for a presentation on Tuesday, a test and my preliminary topic for my research proposal due on Friday, and Recruitment every night this week. I really think number 3 applies to me. :)

UGH!!!

Ugh, I studied my butt of for this "quiz". I put quiz in quotations, b/c he just calls it a quiz, it's really a test, a test that we have every stinking Friday! Stupid Basic Reporting! When in the world does he think i have the time to read four newspapers front pages articles? Does he really think all college students have an abundance of time. Well, maybe regular ones do, but sorority members don't, oh and half our class is in a Greek organization!

So this test... 13 sentences with anywhere form 1 to 6 errors that could either be spelling errors, AP Style errors, or News errors. I'm fairly certain I got all the spelling errors, but the rest I pretty much sucked at. If you've never hear of AP Style it's the Associated Press Style. It's the style that all reporters use. For example in AP Style it is "all right" never "alright". Anyways, the AP Style book is very similar to a dictionary. This weeks test was over the As and Bs (about 40 pages total). No it's not like a reading a book. And the news! I mean, I've been scanning the headlines, and listening to CNN in all my spare time (HA!), and yet I missed the article about how the Pike Central football (not basketball) coach committed suicide and on a larger note, I missed the articles about Bush sending $1 billion (not $1 million, or $10 million as I corrected) to Georgia and the one about how we have an Embargo on Cuba (not the Bahamas) b/c of Gustav. Oh and of course I didn't know that The mayor of New Orleans is C. Ray Nagin (not Nagan)!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure, that I along with the rest of the class made a 'C' or below. On the bright side, I'm 100% certain I got all the US states right.

Needless to say I am not in a good mood, no am I very pleased with my sorority. Oh and I would like to mention that on Monday I have a quiz, on Tuesday I have a presentation, and next Friday I have another test, and my sorority practices go something like this...

Friday - 5-7 and everyone is required to attend TKE's Glamour Girl from 7 -9
Saturday - Practice 9 -9 and then a party form 11 to midnight
Sunday- practice 2-9 (if Fox doesn't change it b/c she feels we're not ready enough)
Monday - practice 7-9 (which I actually get to miss b/c of a night class from 6-9)
Tuesday - practice 7-9
Wednesday - intro night, 5 party min. 4:30-10 (if we're lucky)
Thursday - Philanthropy night, 5 party min., first night selections 4:30 - 11:30 (if we're lucky)
Friday - Theme night, 4 party min., second night selections 4:30 - 1 am (if we're lucky)
Saturday - Pref night, 2 party min. not for sure about the times, but it will be around 2 to 7, and then we go to Olive Garden until 9ish
Sunday - Bid Day, 2 - 8? (if we're lucky)

Yeah, and I'm supposed to study when???

Life as a student

Yesterday while I was reading for WWII I fell asleep, but it was only for 20 minutes, so all was good, and i retrieved my laundry before it got pulled out by someone who wanted my dryer. After that I went to the Labor Day picnic, because that's the school's way of making up for not giving us the day off of classes. Then i went to my night class. After my waaaaay boring audio production class with my very bitter professor (He recently got fired from his real job at a radio station), I went with my roommate Amanda to see House Bunny. It's a new movie out about a playboy bunny that becomes a house mother for a sorority. It's kind of controversial on our campus currently because the two main sororities are Zeta Alpha Zeta, Zeta for short, and Phi Iota Mu. The reason this so controversial is because two of the sororities on Evansville's campus is Zeta Tau Alpha, Zeta for short, and Phi Mu (my sorority). In the movie, Zeta is a bunch girls who are waaay weird and through the movie they get a make over and become these really hot girls who everyone pays attention to, but in the end they decide being themselves is the best, and they get the 30 pledges they needed (sorry if you were going to see the movie and I spoiled it for you). Phi Iota Mu in this movie is a sorority with a bunch of mean, preppy girls. The thing is some people were saying this could hurt Zeta, but in reality, I think it would hurt Phi Mu more. I guess we'll see with this year's recruitment starting in a week.

So today, i got up a little earlier and finished my homework. I went to my WWII class. I freaking love that class, and it's only the second class. :) Today we talked about what we think of when we think of WWII, perceptions of WWII, and what problems there are with those perceptions. We decided that the main perception of WWII was that it was a war of good vs. evil, good being the Allies and evil being the Axis. Then we discussed who really was evil, and discussed the horrific things that each side then, and then he asked again, who really was evil. I really think this class is going to make me think. I really like it.

I've also decided I'm going to explore a career in PR a little bit and add it to my many options for when i graduate in May, which is looming ever so near in the future. My dad always told me I'd make a great manager (and even though i hate to admit my dad is actually right, so do i), and I think PR would be a great way to combine that communications.

After classes I went to the store with Amanda so we could get things for the next two weeks of dinners. And then when we came back we watched three episodes of Gilmore Girls, and then went to a Hall meeting where we learned what to do and not do/not get caught doing. :-D Now it's Greek time!!!! I freaking love Greek! Greek rocks my socks off!!! After Greek I'm going to skit practice for theme night (3rd night) of recruitment until 11, and then I'll either proceed to work on homework I put off or save it until tomorrow when I have a 7 hour break and go to bed. Oh the life of a college student.