Family Notes: September 2007 Archives

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!

The National Merit Scholar reception was today. There weren't that many people there, though I did find out a couple other freshmen were national merit as well. All the upperclassmen with scholarships were there as well.

They gave me another certificate. See...I've gotten LOTS of certificates from being a National Merit Scholar. I got one for being a semi-finalist - actually I got three...one from the corporation, one from the school, and one from a state representative or something. Then I got the nice official framed certificate for being a finalist, along with something from the school....And now I get another certificate for getting the scholarship. But this one is from UD and is hand-signed.

I met the lady in charge of alumni relations. It was extremely amusing, because we had a conversation about linguistics/accents that lasted for a good five minutes. She's one of those people who picks up accents really quickly as well, so we talked about that. It was really random and fun.

This Friday I'm planning on going to this From the Ashes of Vesuvius exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It's going to be really fun, I think.

So Dad, you should get Esther down here on a Thursday night sometime so she can go swing dancing. I have no idea when this would work, but it would be so much fun if it did.

I have some homework now, but not too much. [Well, obviously; if I had lots of homework I would not be writing long blog posts!] I think this is a fluke week, if my friends' amount of homework is any indication of the proper amount of homework here.

"Summerlong" by Kathleen Edwards is one of my favourite songs, and Blake Lewis has a CD coming out sometime in October. Ivannah met him. I am very jealous.

So I didn't realise that when it rained, there were going to be RIVERS and LAKES of water lying in wait on the sidewalk, waiting to trip up the poor souls with slippery-soled shoes...

Unfortunately, that is how it is when it rains. I'm buying rain boots tomorrow.

My little siblings keep making me pictures. I love them and will have to get some sticky tack so that I can put them up on my wall. Everything else I've received so far has been junk mail, though.

I've been approved for each Chase Platinum card at least twice, I think (and they have a Visa and a MasterCard). It's rather ridiculous. Yet I haven't heard back from the one I actually applied for....I've also been pre-approved for WaMu platinum MasterCard at least twice.

Anyone who has a copy of a DHS newspaper in which I had an article published, could you please get that to me somehow? I need it so I can provide a sample of my writing to the UD newspaper. Oh yeah, I should see if they have a lit mag....

Tootsie rolls are definitely overrated.

As I find it highly unlikely that I'll be able to get to Lamar in order to watch the Duncanville/Lamar tennis matches, I'm going shopping tomorrow with two other girls. It will be a lot of fun.

Today was my first day of work study at the library. It was all right. They said we weren't going to have time to study, but we definitely do. Since I'm working what are nominally hour shifts but in actuality are fifty-minute shifts due to having to get to class, I haven't done much as well. I get to check out books and stuff though. It's fun. And my cash register experience helped with figuring out the cash register in the library.

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