My day began with my wonderful dad bringing the Calc book of Mrs. Orr's that I forgot at home to me. He got here around 6:40 AM, which is shortly before he has to be at work, sadly. (A story for another day, there) I figured that, if nothing else, I could at least be prepared for my Calc class.
I stumbled back up to bed and slept for a while until my roomie's alarm went off. When I say went off, I mean that she has an iPhone and her alarm tone is the ringtone that sounds like a nuclear meltdown is about to happen (does that ring a bell, you iPhone users out there??), and she somehow slept through that for a couple of minutes until I got sick of hearing it and said something. (There's definitely a story in that, but once again, not today.)
After so long, I knew that trying to sleep much longer would be a futile effort, so I got up and started my coffee. While waiting for that, I turned on the morning news and started my morning Internet ritual...(Facebook, my blog, my email, then my student page). Eventually, I got to the last one, and, on a whim, I decided to check and see if maybe, just maybe, my scholarship money was through and I could accept my money so that I could buy my books. You wouldn't believe how nervous I was to check it, in the event that it still wasn't there. However, I didn't have to worry about that, because, at last, my money arrived!!!!!!!!!!!! I hopped right on accepting it, and I knew that I could go buy my books as soon as I got out of class.
I had a good talk with my mom while I was getting ready this morning, but I had to end it since it is generally frowned upon to carry on a phone conversation in class. Even better, I ran into my cousin, Liz, who I was really hoping to see! We decided that I would have to come over to their house as soon as I possibly could...I'm thinking next week-ish?
My first TR class is Late British Literature. My professor is actually one of my former PLC sponsors and the faculty advisor for the Literature Club that I'm involved with, so we know each other quite well. She really is an awesome lady...just as a side note, that professor is so inspiring on many different levels. For one thing, she was born with cerebral palsy, which has affected her lower extremities, meaning that she has to walk with a walker, or with some sort of support, but she doesn't let her disability slow her down, and she does the best she can to live a normal life. The bigger thing about her is her enthusiasm for her job, because she told us that she still couldn't believe that she actually gets paid to do what she does, because she doesn't consider it work. You really have to admire that in a teacher, and that is so refreshing, being that so many tenured professors tend to stagnate and lose their enthusiasm for their career. The class itself should be a wonderful change of pace for me, since this semester is so math-centric. She has realistic demands for this class, and it is nothing that I can foresee stressing over too much! Hooray for good classes!
Calc II was nothing too impressive. We continued to go over our review sheet that she gave us yesterday. After having some time for peer collaboration (my favorite part), she went on and reviewed the answers. I don't know if it'll be like this all semester, but she went freakishly slow on something that us Enidites had no struggles with. I guess this could be better than having a teacher go so fast that you can hardly write anything down? It's still hard to judge how this class will go.
After Calc, I was able to successfully get my books from the bookstore!!!!! However, it is sad to say that I only have three classes with books, but I can't fit all three books and my other things (notebooks, binders, etc) in my backpack at one time.
Yes, these are my three books, with a one-inch binder to the left for scale. No, we will not be reading everything in that massive Brit Lit book!!!
After I hefted these books back to my room, I decided to pay my neighbor, Haley a visit. She is one of the Freshmen and she doesn't have a roommate, so I decided that I should see about becoming a cafeteria buddy with her. What started as a simple drop-in visit turned into a three hour heart-to-heart. I love it when that happens! Amazingly enough, we really get each other and we have so much in common...I told her that she is my mini-me! I can't wait to see what adventures we go on this year!
That concludes my first day portion, but the rest is the usual Tuesday update...
-The rest of my day ended on a somewhat sad note. Sunday night, Gina's (stick with me here) brother-in-law's former fiancee passed away at the age of 28 from a difficult battle with leukemia. To be technical, Gina's BIL had ended his relationship with this girl almost a year ago, but it ended on relatively good terms, all things considered. She was diagnosed just after Thanksgiving of this past year, she went straight into chemo, and she was in the process of getting some sort of transplant in place to help the cancer stay in remission. Unfortunately, with her condition, her immune system was virtually nonexistent, and she fell prey to a few viruses that ultimately led to her downturn. The past few weeks, she has been on life support and 24/7 dialysis, and after much deliberation and prayer, her parents made the difficult choice to take her off life support. It is devastating to think that one year ago, she was perfectly fine (as far as we knew), and now she's gone. Tonight was the visitation at the funeral home with her family. Gina and I decided to go, even though we didn't know any of her family. It was definitely a God thing that we went, because we ended up having a wonderful conversation with her mom, who really just needed someone to talk to. It was heart-breaking, yet comforting to talk to this lady, and I say that because it's always hard to fathom losing one's own child, but it was comforting in the fact that she was so strong in faith that she had a good attitude about everything. Lots of tears all around, but, sometimes that's okay.
-Gina and I had a good ride back, especially after we made a Mickey D's pitstop and I had my first experience with a Rolos McFlurry! It was incredibly sweet and totally unhealthy, but life's too short to constantly worry those things, and besides, it was delicious! :)
-Today was Cody, Wyatt, and Kyle's first day of school. I haven't had much of a chance to talk to the boys themselves, so I guess I'll have to wait to post in-depth stuff until then.
-Now, I am sitting wide awake in my room because, although I was incredibly tired and on the verge of falling asleep downstairs about thirty minutes ago. Here's what went down: I was so tired that I collapsed into bed, relishing in the comfort of it. I was calm, and all was well in my world. I had just had a great (for the most part) day, and I was ready to sleep so I could have another great day tomorrow. I had just shut my eyes, and I was starting to drift already, when I heard a weird noise. That weird noise suddenly turned into a full-on thunking noise, and I realized that something was falling down my staircase, then I snapped out of my sleepy daze and realized that my beloved wall mirror had just taken a tumble down a flight of stairs. I was totally bummed, because Tevis and I had expertly hung said mirror last week, although I put it in a different spot than last year. When I hung it last year, that bad boy didn't budge until I took it down when I moved out in May. This time it didn't even last a week! Really?
BUT WAIT!!! It gets better!
I get down to the foot of the stairs fully expecting to see my beloved mirror in thousands of pieces and having to pick up glass shards for a month. What I found was my mirror, fully intact, and otherwise ready to rehang. Could someone explain how that even happens?! I am still amazed by that!!! However, my sleepy-time daze has now been replaced by the adrenaline rush enduced by the noise from the falling mirror. Such is life, but I don't have to pick up glass shards now!!!
P.S. I will be rehanging my mirror back where I had it last year, where it is virtually impossible for it to fall down the stairs! :)
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