So I'm doing alright with regards to the breakup. Mainly I'm annoyed with the lack of sympathy from newly "cool college kids" but heck, that's why I live where I live!
The air conditioning broke down today but by the time I had gotten back to the hall it was back up in the rooms (and so strong!) but not the kitchen. The meal freezer also was off, so the maintenence man told me... so hopefully the food will be ok even if it might have thawed a bit (yikes!), and to top it all off we have no hot water! On the good end of things though, Alisha is running for food board chair!!! Yayayayayay!
Last night was the greatest, even if it was late. Sara and I were studying in our room with the door open on the hallway. We kept hearing laughing and yelling and screams etc... so finally went out to look what was going on. It sounded like a terrific party or something. Down on the second floor were a bunch of the girls playing baseball with the little bat and whiffle ball we gave everyone at the beginning of the year. Baseball in a narrow hallway... it was so much fun. I can't hit, but Anna sure can! At one point she whacked the ball and it came straight at me and hit hard on my leg... it even left a mark that is still fainly visible this afternoon! And she was hitting with one arm only (she's gimpy on the other currently). So strong! But we all laughed and continued our play. At one point Sara and I had this massive collision too. She was headed for home and I for 1st base. Somewhere in the middle was Erika who had the ball and was trying to tag someone. Well, we ended up flying everywhere (it is a fairly narrow hallway, afterall, and we were running) in a spectacualr explosion of arms and legs.
It was great:) Then loopy day was just before midnight. Pearson was running from hall to hall and boy was that a site to see. It was a massive (well, somewhere around 50) rush of men coming at our hall singing the Loopy Day song (or something). That was something.
So tonight Hannah is coming over for dinner and then we'll go over to her place to watch a movie. Then I'm coming back to go to Troy at the Union. What fun!

So I lied. Apparently I have more bug bites than I thought earlier. Makes me a bit more worried about next Wednesday.

Currently Reading Elementary Statistics in a World of Applications (4th Edition) By Ramakant Khazanie see related

The first few weeks have been amazingly eventfull. Not entirely good, and not bad, just full of randomness. Like, for instance I've been spending proportionately more time working on Campus Girl Scouts and Hall stuff than school work (probably already to my detriment). Anyway, it's been a good time thus far, and sadly I'm forced into melancholy when I'd rather be having fun because of a certain individual who shall remain unamed. I hate being dependent.
I think the best thing that happened today is field ecology lab. We spent 4 hours outdoors doing a mark-recapture study at NESA and the weather was great! I know it rained and all that, but it wasn't hot or all that humid which was sooooo nice for the Coloradoan;) Anyway, in those 4 hours we skeined (sp?) this small pond for fish 5 times and then marked the fishes we caught in this net by cutting off part or most of their dorsal fin (poor little fishies) and then tossed them back in the pond and went back in and skeined 5 more times (bringing my total times in the water to 3!). Then we looked at each fish we caught and counted total numbers of fishes and total in the second sample population that had been marked previously to estimate population size. In that small pond there were aproximately 502 fish! I'm pretty amazed at myself. I thought I might be more squeamish than I actually was. But no! I was in that water sometimes almost up to my neck in water and almost to my ankles in mud! I held so many fish today and even cut a few of the dorsal fins (I preferred holding the fish to cutting them, personally). On one of the runs I did I was in the middle of the skein net (that was when I almost ended up swimming) we caught a bullfrog. And we kept catching these HUGE tadpoles and we even caught a small bass in the process of eating one of the smaller fishes. And amazingly enough I think I came away with only one bug bite. Next week I may not be so lucky We're studying terrestrial insects in the forest reserve... and I've never had a tick before and the wild spiders out here in Kansas are HUGE! Yikes:O
Ahhh, biology... nothing better!