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I'm sure Mom and Dad remember Bill Ferris. He's kind of hard to forget, with that red hair. Well, one of the Charity Week things is a shave-off -- you specify an amount, people donate, and if you raise that amount you shave your head. Bill Ferris did it, and shaved his head. Most of it went to Locks of Love, which is good. That was about a week ago, and now he looks like he just got a buzz cut.

A week ago was the dance. I wore that one dress Anna made me buy back in junior year. The dance was so much fun and SO much better than the choir banquet dance sophomore year. Some of my friends and I went to Empress of China beforehand and IHOP afterwards.

Speaking of IHOP, we also went there on Tuesday (I thiiink) evening and Thursday night. The people who went on Thursday night decided that it will become a biweekly tradition, occurring after those with work-study get their paychecks...Speaking of paychecks, I need to go to the bank.

Schoolwise -- I'm making an A in German. We played Twister in German the other day. That was extremely amusing, because it was ten college students and one doctoral candidate playing. That doctoral candidate is an adjunt professor in the theology department and teaches some of my friends, so I got to tell those friends I played Twister with their professor. One of the girls was wearing a really short skirt. Somehow she managed to get things that did NOT require her to bend over, THANKFULLY....

I had a Politics exam on Monday. I still don't know how I did. Theology quiz Thursday, which I didn't do too well on, but I know I almost certainly made somewhere in the 65-75 range, so that's okay. Still haven't gotten the English paper revision back. Speaking of English, I don't have it on Monday morning because my professor is doing PhD stuff and can't make it. We're either going to have him on Wednesday or a sub, and Friday is Fall Reading Day. But we're ahead in that class, so it's okay.

The thing about my classes is, I have to have at least a B average to keep my scholarships for next year. If I don't have my scholarship I can't go to UD. I need to have a slightly higher average for the National Merit scholarship, but I can survive without that one so I'm not too worried. But right now I don't really know any grades, so yeah.

On Friday, Duncanville tennis had a match against Arlington Lamar. We don't like Arlington Lamar. Anyways, Duncanville team won 10-9. Luke lost doubles, but won singles. And I got to go watch, because Mrs. Olsen is a very, very nice lady. I also got to go home and see Lydia's adorable dwarf hamster!

I'm hoping to go to Incarnation tomorrow morning. I don't know if that'll work out though.

The thing about my bed at college is that it is ridiculously comfortable and makes it extremely hard to get up. This is at once a very good thing and a very bad thing, especially when one must get up early than one would like.

That's all for now!

This week is Charity Week. Charity Week basically means that everyone pays to do all sorts of mean and not so mean things to each other. One of these things is jail. Jail is especially cool because you can put your professors in jail, and thereby get out of class. This happens on Thursday and Friday only. Every person in the class puts in a dollar, and the professor goes to jail!

First class of the day: Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometry. Dr. Phillips takes roll, then a lady comes in and mentions coffee and doughnuts. Apparently the professors have their own "jail" where they can sit and relax with treats.

Second class of the day: Mr. Golden, the theology adjunct who teaches my Understanding the Bible class, doesn't quite understand jail. He teaches for forty-five minutes, then we take him down, give the money to the lady, he gives her money to get out, and then leaves. I felt kind of bad about putting him in jail, because he really didn't understand it but he did it anyway....

There is a certain professor named Father McGuire. He does everything he can to resist being put in jail, and he actually gets put in the real jail. It takes about six people, if not more, to get him into the jail, and then he stages breakouts during which people get out, but get soaked in the process. This guy is definitely on the older side of middle-aged, but he still manages to give the jailers a hard time. It's amazing and quite amusing; he's become a legend when it comes to the Jail.

Third and last class of the day: Intensive Elementary German. Dr. Eidt goes willingly, on the condition that we take him to the jail while singing the German national anthem. This, we soon find out, means walking up and down the Mall twice while singing. Next to playing Pterodactyl in the Catherine common room, this is one of the craziest things I have seen college students do. So we do that, he goes off to jail, and I enjoy free time. We're doing it again tomorrow, as we have him every day.

Also, any illegal drug paraphernalia is now illegal on campus. This includes hookahs. Hookahs look like the pipe the caterpillar smokes in Alice in Wonderland. The substance smoked in them on this campus is apparently not illegal. There are at least two or three on campus that I have seen. Anyway, hookahs are not allowed as of today and it makes me laugh, because a noticeable amount of people smoked from them in obvious places.

That's all for now!

My family is awesome because we put on some '70s music, turn it up, and go around the house singing along. Sometimes to the instrumental parts. "Afternoon Delight," "Hooked on a Feeling," "The Night Chicago Died"....

I randomly played handbells in church this morning because they needed someone. It was a part and a piece that I'd never played before, and I hadn't played handbells at all for several months. But the piece was easy and I was able to practice it beforehand, so it worked out. I think next Sunday I'm going to go to Incarnation [the church I went to for most of my childhood]. I'm looking forward to that.

Luke made me an apple pie (!!). It was REALLY REALLY GOOD. My mother can testify to this. Speaking of which, her birthday is tomorrow, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!

One day this past week, my German teacher mentioned das Telefon. He told us a bit about telephone etiquette in Germany, then proceeded to hand a walkie-talkie to one of the students and leave the room. That was the most hilarious bit of class ever. There was something quite hilarious about his voice asking these random questions: "Kann ich mit __ sprechen? Ah, __, wie alt bist du? ... Haben sie Geschwister?" The conversations had little to no resemblance to actual phone conversations one might have, which is, I think, why it was so amusing. You really had to be there for the full effect, but it was definitely still quite amusing.

On Thursday night I watched Grey's Anatomy in Jerome [girl's dorm across campus from me] with a bunch of girls...and two guys. One of these guys really likes the show; he owns seasons 1 and 2. I'm going to be borrowing season 2 from him. He's in my Lit Trad and Politics classes.

Parallel Fiction [Aaron's and Nathan's band] is doing a show Oct. 20th. I'm really hoping to go to that since I missed their other show.

They're remodeling my workplace. It's a mess. I don't know my PLUs quite as well as I did while working 20 hours a week, but that's okay.

Okay, that's random bits of my week. Now I need to read some Federalist Papers and hopefully go to the Cap Bar with Amanda. I'll try and update again soon!

Yeah, this way I don't have to keep sending you all emails! Fun, huh?

So my window's looking out on rush hour traffic right now...Not much of it, just this ramp onto a highway which I can see a small bit of from my window. It amuses me. Also, when I'm walking back to my dorm along a certain way I see this highway, and I have yet to look at it without seeing at least one eighteen-wheeler.

I don't know if I told you all this or not, but there are definitely bunnies on campus. It's pretty awesome.

Politics was actually rather interesting today, despite my professor's declaration that "my voice is at the same pitch as the air conditioner." Lit Trad was rather a blank - we didn't do much...It'll be difficult to have any good discussions in fifty minutes though. German was quite good, as always so far. We had a quiz. I got the article for "Schreibtisch" wrong, but otherwise got everything right - and I didn't study at all....Gotta love having had three years of high school German and going back to the very basics. Oh, we did math in German, it was fun.

I have a two-hour break between Politics and German, and it only takes me about half an hour to eat lunch. Today I ended up filling most of that blank by talking to Bill, a sophomore with bright red curly hair. Among other things, we talked about theology - on a surface level, but still, it was fun.

I've discovered that staying up till 1am when one has a 9am class is not the best plan. Last night was the second night in a row I did this. [What can I say, people are fun to talk to!] I ended up getting up about 7:30...was going to take a shower but the line was rather long, so I just pulled my hair back in a ponytail, got dressed, and went to breakfast. Oh yes, I've been getting up rather earlier than I technically need to, but it's a good thing. Anyway, I was having a bit of a hard time keeping my eyes open in Lit Trad - so afterwards, during my hour break between Lit Trad and Politics, I went to the Cap Bar and got an iced cappucino. I put two spoonfuls of sugar in it and it actually tasted pretty good - and I was awake for Politics, which is good because if I was tired it would be really hard to concentrate. By the way, next week I will be doing work study during those hour breaks for the most part.

I went to a focus group after my German class. It was six students and three admissions counselors in a room, with admissions counselors asking questions about the admissions process/experiences of students to figure out what they can do better. I met someone who's from Sunnyvale, CA. Oh, and I met my admissions counselor. That was rather amusing, since I talked about her without knowing she was right there....I got a Cap Bar ticket for doing it, which is awesome because that means I won't have to pay for caffeine next time I need it. Amanda mentioned Monday morning in conjunction with needing caffeine, to which I replied "Thaaanks..."

Amanda is the girl whose birthdate is the day after mine, but the year before me. We started talking and pretty much haven't stopped, and she's my best friend here at this point. We have a lot of fun together. She's one of the people I've been staying up talking to....

I got to go swing dancing last night! It was inexpressibly fun, even just watching. Oh yes, apparently I can dance. I did learn how to swing dance somewhat at TAC, and I caught on pretty quick last night - though it probably helped that I was dancing with people who knew what they were doing. I guess I could follow the guy or something. Anyway, it was SO MUCH FUN. Oh yeah, they have this Winter Cotillion dance where the girls have DANCE CARDS and there's real ballroom dancing and they have dancing classes so that you can actually do the dances and oh my word it's going to be SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

I own Hitch now. The team I was on for the orientation scavenger hunt got second place, and so we all got DVDs!

Anyway, I think this is quite long enough....In about twenty-five minutes I'll be going with Amanda and this other girl who's driving to the hospital where Amanda's going to be volunteering, so she can drop off some paperwork. Then we're coming back, eating, having a movie night or some such, and hopefully going to IHOP at one in the morning - because I've never done it, I've heard it's tons of fun, and it seems like it would be awesome. This, of course, will only happen if we find someone with a car, which may or may not happen. Not everyone has a car around here.

Oh yes, I'm really glad I'm living on campus.

That is really all. Sorry for the length, but...Yeah, hope it was worth it!