Published....

So sometime Spring semester of last year, to procrastinate doing some work, I filled out a random survey about Scripps for some guide about colleges. And, to quote Ian, moved on with my life.

Today, I got an e-mail from a woman from the Student's Guide to Colleges (or some such) saying that they're going to publish my answers, along with two other Scripps women's! This will go out in January, they're doing final editing, and needed to ask me a few more questions. Which I gladly answered. The main thing that bothers me is that I have no idea what I wrote in the first place! And I hope I didn't write anything stupid. Because I know I assumed that I wouldn't get chosen. Never assume things like this!

Anyway, it's kind of cool that I'll be published in a book that will go out in major bookstores all over the country. I'll have to find it when it comes out, and see what exactly I wrote. Hopefully it was well written!

So, the hope would be, in the next year, that I will be a published author of at least one scientific paper, and a portion of a random guide to colleges. That's kind of cool. Something to add to the list of accomplishments anyway. ;)

Busy!

Wow, it's been a pretty insane weekend. Friday we stayed in and sewed, because we needed to get Troy and Becca's costumes done for the dance party on Sat. Sat. we all were up at eight sewing and various activities until brunch, then Sandor came up and I helped him sew his costume until it was time to run down and help Dan teach lindy. Then I had my committee meet to set-up for the party, which we actually finished in an hour, and the decorations weren't half bad, if I do say so myself. Andrew got a couple people to help him make ghosts out of white trash bags, stuffed with newspaper, so we hung those all around, it was cute. And a good idea on his part. After we finished setting up, we went back to the office to ask Chris when we could get the grapes and things out of the fridge, and he asked me to come down and help him teach the lesson. Which was fine, it was a bit of a rush getting ready, and I couldn't help them work on their costumes at all, I felt kind of bad, but, I got down there, and we taught two-step, which was fun. And then the party started, and I had to run back to the office and get grapes and cremepuffs from the fridge because Andrew didn't get them. Silly boy. So, once I got the food I was free to dance, which I did. Leslie and Matt L. and Janel all came back, which was cool. It was really good to see them again! I had an awesome dance with Matt, and fun dancing lindy to waltz music with Dan. He's made it his mission to continue Jon's tradition of dancing lindy to everything. It was fun. I danced lindy to a quickstep with Andrew, but at least that's a swing. It was good stuff. Then, during one lindy, Andrew and Dan decided that they were going to change partners, and so Allison and I got switched between them the entire time, which was fun! And the next song, Dan and Andrew started dancing together, and then Allison and I decided we were going to dance together, and eventually we got boys to dance with us, but there was lots of partner trading going on in the song, which, I have to say, was really fun! I enjoy dancing with everyone! I never got to do an actual waltz though, which is sad. Oh well. It was still a fun party, and apparently the lindy looked really good. Our alums all said that it was awesome to watch, and we had done a really good job, which is very gratifying since PC and I had re-taught it, and everyone put in time outside of rehearsal mostly, to make it happen. It was a good night.
Oh, and our costumes, everyone was incredibly impressed with them. Because they're absolutely amazing. They finished theirs and got down just as the costume contest was starting, I was a little worried that they weren't going to make it, but they did, which was good. We lost to Lisa and Ethan, Andrew said it was because of the cute factor, but everyone was amazed. I think they did a wonderful job on them. I have a picture, we didn't go all out, because we had to perform, and we also wanted to save something for actual Halloween, so there will be lots more pictures then. The dresses are absolutely amazing.
In other things, I've been doing tons of work, and I ushered for the performance of Dracula today, I haven't been to see a ballet in so long, it was nice to see. Although I only stayed for the first half because I had work to get done. But, it was good, they had a couple very good dancers, and the chorus actually had a large part, which is unusual, and I appreciated, having been a chorus memeber in various shows far too many times. :)
Anyway, everyone's busy and stressed, but we're all making it through somehow. Sleep time!

Rain and Blah

It's raining here, not sprinkling, raining raining raining. I got SO wet this morning on the way to rehearsal! It was insane. I had to ride across a river of water that was three feet wide and about six inches deep, and there are piles of silt all over near the ballroom that were washed down from all the run-off. Insane. My sweatshirt is still wet, and my pants dried after six hours... I had a wet butt all through rehearsal, it was not comfortable. And it was pretty chilly, since I was completely drenched, even though the heat was on. *sigh* And, we had two hours of no rain, and now it's raining again. California was not meant to hold this much water all at once, it should stop. I'm not looking forward to walking down to standard, as you can probably guess.

Break was great! I got a bunch of work done, slept some, and hung out with friends, and it was really good. Lonely during the day often, but, good overall. I'm glad most everyone is back though, it's so much nicer having people around. I walked down to Andrew's by myself on Sunday night, and there was no one on the campuses it seemed like. It was a little creepy. I had people to walk back with, so it wasn't bad coming back, but it was quite the realization just how nice it is to have people around. I don't know how people live by themselves. I know I couldn't do it. I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate!

So, I hate computers, and I hate Scripps computers, and this is why: So, I made the dance party poster yesterday afternoon, and these things, they take a while, to be all artistic. So, I get it done in like two hours, I'm pretty pleased with the results, I go to print it, and lo and behold, Scripps has deleted that program from all the computers in the lab. They no longer have an Adobe program! What in the world?! So, of course, I can't save the file as anything but an Adobe file because the program is stupid, and I can't figure out how to paste it into Paint or anything, which I know I could do before. So, I had to recreate the entire thing in Paint, which was insane, because that program is so hard to work with! It doesn't let you layer things, so once you click off of it, you can't move it. SO annoying! And when you've got things close together... gah! I was so frustrated! But, we finally got it printed, after many trials, I'll see in an hour and a half how the posters actually look. I sincerely hope they're good, for all the trouble that I went to to get them printed. Bah.

Anyway, back to the work... yay for three day weeks!

Break!

Ahh, the wonderfulness of knowing there is only one more day of class left before break, and that all the work for that day is complete. I have an eight and a little bit page formal Chem lab sitting on my bed, a three page results section for bio, and a chem prelab. Yes, all that for one day. But, there is only one day left, and then I have four wonderful days of freedom! And some work, but freedom! To do whatever I feel like! It's so incredibly exciting! Yay for being able to sleep! And bothering people who shouldn't work on their theses all weekend. ;)

So, I heard some interesting things about sleep dep this morning. Made more interesting by the fact that I'm pretty sure I've been living with sleep dep for the last oh, six years at least. Anyway, apparently, if you get enough deprivation, your body will enter REM sleep directly, at a random time, like during class. So apparently, when people have their eyes closed, but they're still sitting upright, and their eyes are moving, they're in REM. Which is really cool! Except bad for the person who it's happening to.

Oh, we had a brain striptease the other morning! It was amusing, Prof. Chase was using the brain model to show us anatomy things, and he was talking about peeling off layers, and then suddenly said: "It's like brain striptease! You never knew neuroscience could be sexy did you?" It was sooo funny! He's great. We got to dissect sheep brains again today. Which was fun, but we didn't have a very good one. It was sad. But, oh well, we had fun anyway.

Anyway, must to bed, since I still have classes tomorrow. But yay for break! Just had to share the joy!!

Yay for blue!

So, apparently people on team have a penchant for wearing the same thing on the same day. It's great! Last week, PC, Adam and Andrew all wore the green concert t-shirts from last year to rehearsal, and today, Justin, Andrew and I were all wearing blue. I was wearing my blue skirt, which, by the way is fabulously fun! Thank you so much Mommy for making it, and thank you so much Aunty for the fabric! And Emily likes it so much that she wants to borrow the pattern. :) It's a great skirt. I got lots of compliments. :) Now, realize that Andrew and Justin were not wearing blue skirts, although that would have been highly amusing, but they were both wearing blue shirts, which was cool. I just found it amusing that three people on two different occasions in the past week have done this. :)

The MOB this weekend was really fun! It was kind of strange though, because there were a lot of people there to begin with, and then they all randomly wandered away. And by the time we left, there were very few people there. It was just odd. I felt kind of bad because we didn't stay to take down, but at the same time... I've done a lot the last two years, I can take one night off. Ian was here, and it was awesome to see and dance with him again. :) Yay for wonderful dancing boys! We all went back to Lisa's suite to play charades for a while. It was so fun! I had to act out Sampson Agonistes, and is was amusing, because I tried to act out the Loch Ness monster, to get sounds like ness, and they didn't get it until after they figured out what the sound was. It was funny. Lisa had to do Ig-pay atin-lay andbook-hay, and she couldn't get them to say pig-latin! They got pig, and latin, but they thought the pigs were speaking Latin or Greek! Ahh charades.

Anyway, lots of work to do this week, so, back to it. But oh, Fall Break... it's so close! Then I can sleep! Well, some, anyway. :)

You know you're a dancer when....

1. You have almost identical bruises with at least one other girl.
2. You scrape the nail polish off your toes in rehearsal.
3. You get up at 6:00 in the morning Mon. Wed. and Friday.
4. You have about eight pairs of suede soled shoes lying on your closet floor.
5. The greater majority of your friends all understand what you mean when you say "my partner needs to learn his routine!"
6. You walk down the sidewalk creating "sexy arms" for your freestyle.


And most importantly, you know you're a dancer when the only things on your class schedule besides academics are dance things.

:) Ahh, I love this life.

EEEEEEE!!!!!!

I made latin medley!! I get to go to Ohio again! And it's so very very very very very VERY exciting! *sigh*

OK, so we had "auditions" this morning, and it was quite nerve wracking, because we were all so mixed up in groups that no one could tell who he actually wanted to watch and who he didn't. I mean, we expected a few people, but yeah, even so. It was crazy, and I didn't dance terribly well, it was kind of sad. But, it went alright, I suppose. But Andrew was convinced he wasn't going. And it made me so so sad! Because it wouldn't be as much fun without Andrew. It just wouldn't at all. But, he's going! And so is Adam! And Becca, and Thea, and Troy, and Justin, PC, and everyone fun! It's going to be an awesome awesome medley!! So yay! I'm going to nationals again in Ohio!! Yay!!!

OK, gotta run, but yay! :)