Semester 8

Wow, what a great year. I can't believe I've graduated already. Here's what I'll remember about my last semester.

• 2nd Annual 80s French toast at Fenway. The side ponytails were awesome.
• Tootsie Rolls. And Tootsie Roll wrappers. A lot of both. Probably well over 3000.
  
• Andrea's Day of Beauty, aka the Miss OU pageant. An enlightening experience.
• Spandex!
• Discovering the duck pond
• Valentine's MT
  
• Quantum...
• The general grad school crisis
  
• The month long cry-a-thon in February/March due to Vanderbilt calling me about a potential fellowship
• The 48-hour visit to Nashville complete with delayed flight.
• Vanderbilt rejecting me
• Naomi's visit: snowcones, the duck pond, and getting soaked in the rain on the way to Andrea's
  
• Purdue visit with my mom
• The great flood of '07 in Norman
• Glorieta
• The Game
• The most excellent Chris Valentine's prank (Just Married...)
• Amy Grosser visiting
  
• Easter in Mustang
• The awesome electronic waterguns from Danny's mom and the attacks that promptly followed on all those studying in the classroom and Chris and Mike and Chris...and Chris
• Passing the waterguns on to other people to squirt Chris.
• The most boring semester of classes ever.
• Getting mistaken for an RA again.
  
• Watching The Office. A lot.
• Study Party Bingo.
• Rain just about every day for the last two or three weeks of school.
• The Wasielewski family randomly sitting behind the Weisbrook family at commencement.
• Dr. Fagan bossing us around (loudly) at graduation.

There may be more, but not tonight. I'm going to sleep and then I'm going to Chicago tomorrow.

another lame post

For anyone who cares, here is a picture of my new (used) car:




Also, I would really like to read this book. In case you were wondering.

on being home...

Church cookbooks are the best. Period. I think everyone needs a standard Betty Crocker or the Joy of Cooking cookbook to get the full gamut of recipes. But after that, church ladies make the best food and therefore, the best recipes and, collected, the best cookbooks.

I also have acquired a car. It is neat. I'm happy. It's a Honda. That means it shouldn't die on me. :)

I'm basically doing a whole lot of nothing while I'm home. This is good. This is also bad. Now that car shopping is over, I'll be doing even more nothing. Unless I actually start cleaning up my room. Motivation is sadly lacking...

My sister is bored a lot recently too. So we hang out sometimes.

Also, my quantum grade was not very nice to me this semester. Oh well. I'm a grad school student now, so it doesn't matter.

That is all. Except that The Office is awesome.

Cali

I want to go to California. Seriously.

Wrapping things up...

I graduate in one week. That's absolutely crazy. My four years of college here are kind of a fuzzy blur, but I have many dear, amazing memories from this place. God knew what He was doing when He brought me here. And I'm pretty sure He knows what He's doing by keeping me here, even if it occasionally seems like the dumbest idea in the world.

So, I can't sleep. I'm terribly sleep-deprived, but I laid in bed for an hour and a half to know avail. So, I got up and read for a bit. I'm going to make another attempt after I finish writing this. These past two weeks have been crazy. I spent 40 hours two weeks ago working on my capstone project/report. Our presentation was last Monday though, so that's completely over. Thank goodness. As is my extra credit paper for numerical methods. I think I overcomplicated that paper a bit. Oh well, that tends to be my typical approach.

This summer is sneaking up on me. People keep asking if I'm excited about Chicago. The answer is "yes", except that I haven't really thought about it much. I'm just trying to survive the next week. Then I can graduate in peace and go home and start thinking about summer.

There's a few unknowns for the fall too. I still don't quite have a place to live. Neither does Katie though. There are two or three potential houses, so that's a step at least. A car for the summer/fall would also be nice too. Hopefully that will work out. Again, something that will hit the radar after graduation.

Life is going well, though, in all honesty. It's been a rough couple of weeks, but I'm getting through. God is faithful . I will make it.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.

-Emily