Boy Wednesday's are definitely not my favorite. These days always just seem to take to long and go by too fast at the same time. It's kinda weird.
Anyways...I had my first ever phone interview today. Not for a job, but just for a story some lady is writing for the Phi Kappa Psi Foundation. Had a pretty good conversation with her. It was cool though, because I had just woken up and was still in my pajamas. Awesome!
Physics class today was pretty lame. But it was also really short. Left class and had a meeting for the Retro Metro Night that is being put on by the 40th Anniversary Committee. That was OK, but nothing super awesome. Then went back to the USG office and got some stuff done there. Then Brady and I went to his apartment to wait for our Exec. meeting for the night.
Came home and haven't really done much since. Like I said a pretty slow day.
Quote of the Day
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." --H. H. Williams
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Time Just Flies
Well it's been a while since my last update, and it sure doesn't really seem like it has been as long as it has. The time just seems to be going so quickly. It only seems like yesterday the summer had started and I thought it was going to be so long before school started back up. Now it's only a week before I move into my apartment, two before RA training begins and a month and school is back in full swing.
Anyways last week I volunteered at the Indianapolis Tennis Tournament. This is my third year doing it and as usual it was a blast. It's nice now as well, because I've become a regular person so a lot of the group knows me now. Makes it better than in previous years when I didn't really know anyone to well. I even recognized some of the umpires and line judges from the year before and got to joke around with some of them. Me and the Egyptian chair umpire even pounded it...which was awkward but cool at the same time. The other awesome part about being there is getting to be really close to the players. I got to talk to Robby Ginepri, and John Isner. Was even super close to Andy Roddick's old coach when I was monitoring one of the matches. Overall that was pretty much my week as I went to class and then spent my time from 6 - 11:30 there each night.
Saturday I woke up early and drove over to Laurel Hall to meet up with the consultants. We drove up to Chicago to do a retreat with IL Delta (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign). It was a lot of fun. They brought a small group of their officers up and we went over some basics. Talked about a mission statement and then got them to set a few goals and just start thinking about what they need to do in order to be successful for the upcoming year. They had some interesting things that definitely caught my attention, but as long as they can get them to work, then I'll support them. They hadn't used committees for almost 30 years I think they said and are trying to get them working now so that'll take some hard work. They also have two vice presidents (external and internal) which was something new to me. I'm really excited to start working with some of the chapters though. Not necessarily doing any of their work for them, but making sure they are getting to the goals they are setting for themselves and helping them reach them in any way I can.
Sunday was pretty nice as well. I went to the finals of the Tennis Tournament with Ronnie, Kyle, and Alex. It was pretty awesome. I wanted to the AUS doubles team to win and thy didn't, but it was still a really awesome match to watch. Professonal doubles is so awesome and I don't think it gets the hype it should, because all the big name players mainly focus on their singles career. The singles match was pretty awesome. It was an All-American final. Sam Querry vs. Robby Ginepri. Querry kind of gave up on the first set, but gave Ginepri a run for his money on the second. Ginepri still won though 6-2, 6-4. I was pretty excited and he's still the only unseeded player that has won the championship.
Yesterday was pretty boring. I woke up went to class and then didn't do a ton after that. I cleaned up my side of the room and started packing a few things so I can be ready to move into my apartment this weekend. And then today so far all that has happened was I took my Physics test. Which I'm pretty sure I rocked! For some reason this semester has just seemed so much easier. Areef yells at me because Brady and I don't study as much as he says we need to, but it's all good. We are still doing pretty awesome. :)
Ok well that's it for now. Enjoy!
Quote of the Day
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." --Clarence Darrow
Anyways last week I volunteered at the Indianapolis Tennis Tournament. This is my third year doing it and as usual it was a blast. It's nice now as well, because I've become a regular person so a lot of the group knows me now. Makes it better than in previous years when I didn't really know anyone to well. I even recognized some of the umpires and line judges from the year before and got to joke around with some of them. Me and the Egyptian chair umpire even pounded it...which was awkward but cool at the same time. The other awesome part about being there is getting to be really close to the players. I got to talk to Robby Ginepri, and John Isner. Was even super close to Andy Roddick's old coach when I was monitoring one of the matches. Overall that was pretty much my week as I went to class and then spent my time from 6 - 11:30 there each night.
Saturday I woke up early and drove over to Laurel Hall to meet up with the consultants. We drove up to Chicago to do a retreat with IL Delta (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign). It was a lot of fun. They brought a small group of their officers up and we went over some basics. Talked about a mission statement and then got them to set a few goals and just start thinking about what they need to do in order to be successful for the upcoming year. They had some interesting things that definitely caught my attention, but as long as they can get them to work, then I'll support them. They hadn't used committees for almost 30 years I think they said and are trying to get them working now so that'll take some hard work. They also have two vice presidents (external and internal) which was something new to me. I'm really excited to start working with some of the chapters though. Not necessarily doing any of their work for them, but making sure they are getting to the goals they are setting for themselves and helping them reach them in any way I can.
Sunday was pretty nice as well. I went to the finals of the Tennis Tournament with Ronnie, Kyle, and Alex. It was pretty awesome. I wanted to the AUS doubles team to win and thy didn't, but it was still a really awesome match to watch. Professonal doubles is so awesome and I don't think it gets the hype it should, because all the big name players mainly focus on their singles career. The singles match was pretty awesome. It was an All-American final. Sam Querry vs. Robby Ginepri. Querry kind of gave up on the first set, but gave Ginepri a run for his money on the second. Ginepri still won though 6-2, 6-4. I was pretty excited and he's still the only unseeded player that has won the championship.
Yesterday was pretty boring. I woke up went to class and then didn't do a ton after that. I cleaned up my side of the room and started packing a few things so I can be ready to move into my apartment this weekend. And then today so far all that has happened was I took my Physics test. Which I'm pretty sure I rocked! For some reason this semester has just seemed so much easier. Areef yells at me because Brady and I don't study as much as he says we need to, but it's all good. We are still doing pretty awesome. :)
Ok well that's it for now. Enjoy!
Quote of the Day
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." --Clarence Darrow
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wedding Bells and Changing Weather
The rest of my weekend was pretty awesome. Saturday morning I woke up and mom and I had pancakes for breakfast. We sat around for a while waiting to see if the sun would come out so we could at least lay outside. Didn't end up happening. This always seems to happen when I go home...the weather just turns horrible. Anyways we ended up going to Wal-Mart and picked up some stuff for dad, and I looked at some new bedding stuff while there. Then we went over to Meijer and did the rounds on "Sample Saturday." We ended up making a salad that we tried there for dinner. It was really good!
Later that night I went to one of my HS friend's sister's wedding reception. It was a good thing that I decided to go home for the weekend because it seems the wedding invitation never made it to me. Because of that I didn't know anything was going on until my friend IMed me and asked if I was going. It was a lot of fun though. Got to see some of my friends from HS that I haven't seen in a while and got to catch up on how things are going for them. Found out my friend Tiffany got into her program so she's coming to IUPUI in the fall for that, so that's really exciting. Hopefully she lives closer to downtown so we can hang out some while she's here.
Sunday was pretty boring. I woke up and got my mom a paper and got some donuts for breakfast. Then we just hung around hoping the weather would get nice, but it didn't. We watched some home remodeling things on TLC...which always just make me want a house of my own so I can do stuff like that. Then I put my first thing for sell on eBay. I'm addicted to looking at it, hoping that the price goes up really well.
Today was good as well. I got my Physics test back. Did pretty well on that one as well, and then we figured out our current grades and I have an A! So I'm pretty excited about that. Definitely ready for this class to be over though, so I don't have to worry about physics anymore. Then we had an emergency meeting for USG to take care of some things that we were behind on. Decided that we would be going to L.A. in the fall for a conference, so pretty excited about that. Then we talked a lot about Senate stuff. I'm really excited to work with senate this year. Got some good ideas to help them take on their responsibilities, and pretty excited to do training with them and all that jazz.
Well that's all for today!
Quote of the Day
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappoited to discover they are not it." --Bernard Bailey
Later that night I went to one of my HS friend's sister's wedding reception. It was a good thing that I decided to go home for the weekend because it seems the wedding invitation never made it to me. Because of that I didn't know anything was going on until my friend IMed me and asked if I was going. It was a lot of fun though. Got to see some of my friends from HS that I haven't seen in a while and got to catch up on how things are going for them. Found out my friend Tiffany got into her program so she's coming to IUPUI in the fall for that, so that's really exciting. Hopefully she lives closer to downtown so we can hang out some while she's here.
Sunday was pretty boring. I woke up and got my mom a paper and got some donuts for breakfast. Then we just hung around hoping the weather would get nice, but it didn't. We watched some home remodeling things on TLC...which always just make me want a house of my own so I can do stuff like that. Then I put my first thing for sell on eBay. I'm addicted to looking at it, hoping that the price goes up really well.
Today was good as well. I got my Physics test back. Did pretty well on that one as well, and then we figured out our current grades and I have an A! So I'm pretty excited about that. Definitely ready for this class to be over though, so I don't have to worry about physics anymore. Then we had an emergency meeting for USG to take care of some things that we were behind on. Decided that we would be going to L.A. in the fall for a conference, so pretty excited about that. Then we talked a lot about Senate stuff. I'm really excited to work with senate this year. Got some good ideas to help them take on their responsibilities, and pretty excited to do training with them and all that jazz.
Well that's all for today!
Quote of the Day
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappoited to discover they are not it." --Bernard Bailey
Friday, July 17, 2009
Remembering
The past few days haven't been too exciting. Big thing though, my fraternity brother, Garret went to the ER on Wednesday. He's had a hematoma for a few weeks and I think the pain finally got to him. I'm glad he went though, because now he's feeling much better. They kept him overnight and they were going to just drain it on Thursday. Instead on Thursday they decided do take him to the OR and actually do surgery on it. He thought they were going to release him that day but kept him overnight again. He got bored a lot today, but they finally released him. I'm glad he's finally feeling better though, because I didn't like seeing him in pain. Joe's watching over him now and I'll be there to help when I get back to Indy later this weekend.
Had my second exam in Physics today. I think it went really well. I finished it faster than the first one, and I felt like I understood a lot more of the material that was on the exam. I guess I just understand electrical physics much more than mechanical physics. Then after class, I drove back to Gas City to spend some time with my parents. My dad's leaving for TX for about a month to take over his friend's job while he's out because of surgery. Not the best time for him to leave, but he is getting paid so that's nice. We had ribs for dinner, which were awesome!
After dinner we kind of picked out some stuff to sell. I guess Gas City is having a city wide rummage tomorrow so mom wanted to take some things to Aamie so we could sell them. I decided to go through my bedroom and find some things I could sell. It was kind of an interesting experience. I found all sorts of stuff I didn't even know I had. I found all my old notes from college classes, my selective service letter, and even some old pictures of me and friends. I also started thinking how much of a pain it will be when we finally move out of this house. Especially all the random things that I have. I couldn't decide what I would reallly do with it all. Especially the things I got in HS that meant so much to me, but now don't really have anything at all. One example was my mini-sectional tennis trophy. I have two of them, but after having left HS I just don't see what I'll do with them now. When I told my mom about that she just says "It'll all go in a box and go to storage when you're older." Kinda makes me sad knowing all the things I worked so hard for in HS just don't have much meaning to me know.
Had a good talk with my parents about the rest of school. Looks like the semester that I thought I would just let stay open won't be such a good idea. If I do that, then I won't have any insurance, which would be a bad idea. Instead I think I'm going to talk to my advisor about switching around some classes so that I'm able to get a minor in Criminal Justice. Then also my last semester I could probably get a part time job. I've thought about maybe trying to clerk for a court or something. (They make really good money!) Anyways, that's about it for now!
Quote of the Day
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." --Will Rogers
Had my second exam in Physics today. I think it went really well. I finished it faster than the first one, and I felt like I understood a lot more of the material that was on the exam. I guess I just understand electrical physics much more than mechanical physics. Then after class, I drove back to Gas City to spend some time with my parents. My dad's leaving for TX for about a month to take over his friend's job while he's out because of surgery. Not the best time for him to leave, but he is getting paid so that's nice. We had ribs for dinner, which were awesome!
After dinner we kind of picked out some stuff to sell. I guess Gas City is having a city wide rummage tomorrow so mom wanted to take some things to Aamie so we could sell them. I decided to go through my bedroom and find some things I could sell. It was kind of an interesting experience. I found all sorts of stuff I didn't even know I had. I found all my old notes from college classes, my selective service letter, and even some old pictures of me and friends. I also started thinking how much of a pain it will be when we finally move out of this house. Especially all the random things that I have. I couldn't decide what I would reallly do with it all. Especially the things I got in HS that meant so much to me, but now don't really have anything at all. One example was my mini-sectional tennis trophy. I have two of them, but after having left HS I just don't see what I'll do with them now. When I told my mom about that she just says "It'll all go in a box and go to storage when you're older." Kinda makes me sad knowing all the things I worked so hard for in HS just don't have much meaning to me know.
Had a good talk with my parents about the rest of school. Looks like the semester that I thought I would just let stay open won't be such a good idea. If I do that, then I won't have any insurance, which would be a bad idea. Instead I think I'm going to talk to my advisor about switching around some classes so that I'm able to get a minor in Criminal Justice. Then also my last semester I could probably get a part time job. I've thought about maybe trying to clerk for a court or something. (They make really good money!) Anyways, that's about it for now!
Quote of the Day
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." --Will Rogers
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Two Days
Well Tuesday was pretty jam packed full of stuff. I slept in and then went to physics class. Which was just completely boring as usual. After that Brady and I went back to the USG Office and did a few things. Mostly just played around on Facebook. I drove over to Park Place to get some info over there, which I later discovered I wasn't supposed to have done...oops. Then I went to the Tennis Center and got my credentials taken care of for the Indy Tennis Tournament. Get to work some late night shifts next week, but should still be a good time. They were even able to switch my volunteer time so now I can head up to Chicago on the 25th! After that went back to the office and did some work with Tatum. Then we and Nick went to get some Chinese before our Kaplan law school insider seminar. The seminar actually went really well. I didn't ask a lot of questions, but learned some good things from other people's.
The best part of the night though was getting to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! I was very excited and we went to see the midnight showing. We made some shirts that looked like quidditch jerseys and everything. Always fun times. The movie was pretty good. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but overall it was still decent. Be sure to go see it!
Was late to class today because I was so exhausted from Harry Potter the night before. Went to the office to take nap, followed by the longest USG exec. meeting we've had all summer. Basically almost three house long. But we got our action items finally so that was really exciting. And sort of hammered out the budget. Poor Tatum had to go back and rework a lot of numbers.
Hooray for a good two days!
Quote of the Day
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not abscence of fear." --Mark Twain
The best part of the night though was getting to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! I was very excited and we went to see the midnight showing. We made some shirts that looked like quidditch jerseys and everything. Always fun times. The movie was pretty good. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but overall it was still decent. Be sure to go see it!
Was late to class today because I was so exhausted from Harry Potter the night before. Went to the office to take nap, followed by the longest USG exec. meeting we've had all summer. Basically almost three house long. But we got our action items finally so that was really exciting. And sort of hammered out the budget. Poor Tatum had to go back and rework a lot of numbers.
Hooray for a good two days!
Quote of the Day
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not abscence of fear." --Mark Twain
Monday, July 13, 2009
Electric Feeling
Today was awesome. I slept in until like 10. Woke up and started to watch some of the confirmation hearing for Judge Sotomayor. Mostly just got to watch the Senators do their opening statements, but it was still pretty interesting. I did like the quote she gave about "judges aren't to make they law, they are to apply it."
Went to class and worked on the wrong homework assignment. But that's ok, because that means I don't have any tonight! Got our test back from last Wednesday and turns out I did really well. Got a B+. Pretty good considering I don't think I got a B on any of the ones from first summer session. Found out we got some extra credit in lab too so that's awesome too.
Came home and did some random stuff for a while. Then decided to research some new computers. My laptop is dying so looking at getting a netbook and a desktop as well. Found some good deals with Dell. Tom told me about the outlet store on there. Pretty nice...able to get the same thing I "made" on the order thing except about $50 cheaper!
That's it for now!
Quote of the Day
"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." --Noel Coward
Went to class and worked on the wrong homework assignment. But that's ok, because that means I don't have any tonight! Got our test back from last Wednesday and turns out I did really well. Got a B+. Pretty good considering I don't think I got a B on any of the ones from first summer session. Found out we got some extra credit in lab too so that's awesome too.
Came home and did some random stuff for a while. Then decided to research some new computers. My laptop is dying so looking at getting a netbook and a desktop as well. Found some good deals with Dell. Tom told me about the outlet store on there. Pretty nice...able to get the same thing I "made" on the order thing except about $50 cheaper!
That's it for now!
Quote of the Day
"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." --Noel Coward
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Weekend at Ohio University
Ok so this weekend was a BLAST! After class on Friday I drove over to Ohio to spend some time at Ohio University in Athens.
Before I went to Athens though, I decided to stop by Dayton to visit the Ohio Mu chapter and have a quick dinner with some of their guys. Dad used to live in Dayton, but I never saw the university that was there. Nice campus and definitely a college area. The house the guys are living in now isn't their chapter house, but did get to see that as we walked to dinner. Kevin Heitz, the President and Joe Matt, the Corresponding Secretary went to Buffalo Wild Wings with me. It was set up differently than the ones here, more like a bar then a restaurant. Then we got some ice cream...compliments of Joe.
The trip from Dayton to Athens was the worst drive ever! Back roads the whole time. The only thing that was decent was that the scenery. It was very peaceful out there. Got into Athens around 9ish, just in time to not be left out of the movie. We went to Nelsonville 10 to see Bruno. I don't think I've said "Oh my God!" so many times in one movie. If you're able to stand being uncomfortable for the whole time, then feel free to see it. After that we went back to Jon and Jake's apartment and just relaxed.
Saturday we woke and up and Jon and Jake made us all breakfast. Which was delicious! Props to them. After breakfast Eugene and Aaron took us (John, Kevin, and me) on a walking tour of some of OU's campus. It such a nice place. I like going there, because it's the exact opposite of what IUPUI is. Then the OU guys had a little meeting to get some things determined for the upcoming year. This was way better than the four hour election meeting I was present for in the winter! Then we went to Chipotle, which was pretty good, but I think I like Qdoba more. Then nap time until we went over to Klink's apartment and had some festivities there. Lets just say there was some hilarious dancing.
Sunday was pretty relaxed. Woke up and went to the bagel deli across the street for breakfast and then I ended up taking a nap for like three hours. Which was probably pretty good considering I had a four hour drive ahead of me. Ron and I went to Sonic! It was delicious and the Cherry Limeades we got were prolly the best drink I've had in a long time. Then the trip home began. Good talks with Ron on the way to Columbus where I dropped him off then, just continued on the way to Indy.
Time to get ready for another week of Physics. Have a test on Friday so that won't be fun at all, but it must be done. Still waiting for the results of the first test. Should be interesting. That's it for now though!
Quote of the Day
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true." --Bertrand Russell
Before I went to Athens though, I decided to stop by Dayton to visit the Ohio Mu chapter and have a quick dinner with some of their guys. Dad used to live in Dayton, but I never saw the university that was there. Nice campus and definitely a college area. The house the guys are living in now isn't their chapter house, but did get to see that as we walked to dinner. Kevin Heitz, the President and Joe Matt, the Corresponding Secretary went to Buffalo Wild Wings with me. It was set up differently than the ones here, more like a bar then a restaurant. Then we got some ice cream...compliments of Joe.
The trip from Dayton to Athens was the worst drive ever! Back roads the whole time. The only thing that was decent was that the scenery. It was very peaceful out there. Got into Athens around 9ish, just in time to not be left out of the movie. We went to Nelsonville 10 to see Bruno. I don't think I've said "Oh my God!" so many times in one movie. If you're able to stand being uncomfortable for the whole time, then feel free to see it. After that we went back to Jon and Jake's apartment and just relaxed.
Saturday we woke and up and Jon and Jake made us all breakfast. Which was delicious! Props to them. After breakfast Eugene and Aaron took us (John, Kevin, and me) on a walking tour of some of OU's campus. It such a nice place. I like going there, because it's the exact opposite of what IUPUI is. Then the OU guys had a little meeting to get some things determined for the upcoming year. This was way better than the four hour election meeting I was present for in the winter! Then we went to Chipotle, which was pretty good, but I think I like Qdoba more. Then nap time until we went over to Klink's apartment and had some festivities there. Lets just say there was some hilarious dancing.
Sunday was pretty relaxed. Woke up and went to the bagel deli across the street for breakfast and then I ended up taking a nap for like three hours. Which was probably pretty good considering I had a four hour drive ahead of me. Ron and I went to Sonic! It was delicious and the Cherry Limeades we got were prolly the best drink I've had in a long time. Then the trip home began. Good talks with Ron on the way to Columbus where I dropped him off then, just continued on the way to Indy.
Time to get ready for another week of Physics. Have a test on Friday so that won't be fun at all, but it must be done. Still waiting for the results of the first test. Should be interesting. That's it for now though!
Quote of the Day
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true." --Bertrand Russell
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Week Recap
So it's been a while since I've updated this thing, so now I'll recap the past week.
Monday was pretty fun. I had a meeting with UITS, the university technology people, for USG and we had a good talk. They gave us some really good information about all the new changes they are making, and it definitely seems that they are really here for the betterment of student life when it comes to technology usage. After our meeting they gave us a tour of the facility. We got to see the high definition display wall as well as some 3D things. They let us use the virtual reality thing too. That was a lot of fun. We even got to see the servers that the univserity uses. The second part of the day wasn't so great. Started up my second summer session and with that is Physics 202. My professor isn't that great and I don't think he really wants to be teaching so it will definitely be an interesting class. The lab portion isn't bad though, our TA is pretty funny.
Tuesday I just had class. Then afterwards, I drove home for the night because I had an eye appointment the next morning. Got to spend some time with my parents though. Dad made steaks and mom had made sun tea, so all in all it was a great meal. After dinner we ended up going to the movie theater and seeing "The Hangover." It was probably one of the funniest movies I have seen in a while.
Wednesday I had my eye appointment. Eyes got worse! Yeah! Beyond that nothing exciting there...came back to Indy and had class again. That night we had a USG Executive Meeting. Feel like that went pretty well. We picked what committees we would be working with and I'm happy to say, that I got Constitutional Revisions :D. We got part way through our action items thinking, but didn't und up finishing it so not sure what all we are focusing on yet.
Thursday was nice, because it was the beginning of a long weekend since the campus was closed the 3rd to observe the 4th. When I got back to the house I decided to head to Target and pick up some new movies. Ended up watching all three in a row pretty much, but was really relaxing.
Friday I woke up and then hung out with Kelsey. We went to her new apartment and unloaded some stuff she had in her car. Then we walked across the street and tried the restaurant Zing. It was really good. After that we started driving up to Lake Freeman to hang out for the day. We rode around on the wave runner for a long time which was awesome. Haven't really been on those a lot, but they are a ton of fun. Kelsey tried to throw me off a few times, but I stayed on. Later that night we took the boat out and watched the fireworks while sitting on the lake. That was a lot of fun. Then Kelsey's parents came and made some food and just hung out for the rest of the night.
Woke up on the 4th to an awesome breakfast made by Kelsey's mom. Then we went down to the boat dock and watched the "Boat Parade." After that played some cards with the neighbors and then Kelsey and I drove back down to Indy. Well she drove...and I slept. Got back to the house and then hung out here for a bit for Ryan's birthday. Then we went over to Cora's apartment since she is leaving for Africa to make sure we could say goodbye to her. Was a lot of fun to go there. Got to see some of my friends that I haven't seen in a while. Then we came back to the house to finish out the festivities of the 4th and for Ryan's 22nd birthday. All in all defnitely a good night!
Quote of the Day
"All love that has not a friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Monday was pretty fun. I had a meeting with UITS, the university technology people, for USG and we had a good talk. They gave us some really good information about all the new changes they are making, and it definitely seems that they are really here for the betterment of student life when it comes to technology usage. After our meeting they gave us a tour of the facility. We got to see the high definition display wall as well as some 3D things. They let us use the virtual reality thing too. That was a lot of fun. We even got to see the servers that the univserity uses. The second part of the day wasn't so great. Started up my second summer session and with that is Physics 202. My professor isn't that great and I don't think he really wants to be teaching so it will definitely be an interesting class. The lab portion isn't bad though, our TA is pretty funny.
Tuesday I just had class. Then afterwards, I drove home for the night because I had an eye appointment the next morning. Got to spend some time with my parents though. Dad made steaks and mom had made sun tea, so all in all it was a great meal. After dinner we ended up going to the movie theater and seeing "The Hangover." It was probably one of the funniest movies I have seen in a while.
Wednesday I had my eye appointment. Eyes got worse! Yeah! Beyond that nothing exciting there...came back to Indy and had class again. That night we had a USG Executive Meeting. Feel like that went pretty well. We picked what committees we would be working with and I'm happy to say, that I got Constitutional Revisions :D. We got part way through our action items thinking, but didn't und up finishing it so not sure what all we are focusing on yet.
Thursday was nice, because it was the beginning of a long weekend since the campus was closed the 3rd to observe the 4th. When I got back to the house I decided to head to Target and pick up some new movies. Ended up watching all three in a row pretty much, but was really relaxing.
Friday I woke up and then hung out with Kelsey. We went to her new apartment and unloaded some stuff she had in her car. Then we walked across the street and tried the restaurant Zing. It was really good. After that we started driving up to Lake Freeman to hang out for the day. We rode around on the wave runner for a long time which was awesome. Haven't really been on those a lot, but they are a ton of fun. Kelsey tried to throw me off a few times, but I stayed on. Later that night we took the boat out and watched the fireworks while sitting on the lake. That was a lot of fun. Then Kelsey's parents came and made some food and just hung out for the rest of the night.
Woke up on the 4th to an awesome breakfast made by Kelsey's mom. Then we went down to the boat dock and watched the "Boat Parade." After that played some cards with the neighbors and then Kelsey and I drove back down to Indy. Well she drove...and I slept. Got back to the house and then hung out here for a bit for Ryan's birthday. Then we went over to Cora's apartment since she is leaving for Africa to make sure we could say goodbye to her. Was a lot of fun to go there. Got to see some of my friends that I haven't seen in a while. Then we came back to the house to finish out the festivities of the 4th and for Ryan's 22nd birthday. All in all defnitely a good night!
Quote of the Day
"All love that has not a friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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