Almost Spring Break!

I took me a little longer to get to this post than usual. I'm about four days late this week, usually I have something up on Monday. Last weekend was our trip to the cabin. I (sadly) drove there by myself through cow towns and rural areas that made me fear albinos (thanks, Liz and Ryan). No cell service, no restaurants, no gas stations. It was a very long 4.5 hours. Now this weekend, I get to drive home 5 hours. And back five hours. And do the same thing again next Friday when I go home for spring break. And the next friday, I get to drive from Hazleton to Toronto (7 hours). I'm going to really dislike both my car and a lot of CDs by that time.

I woke up really early this morning so that I could go pick up Dana's Aerie gift before class. I knew I wouldn't be welcome at home without it. I packed, went to breakfast with Ryan and then headed off to the mall. Back to UB and a LONG walk from the dorm parking lot to calculus class, which I am currently wait for to start. Class until three, when I'm going to finish packing the car, go to the comic book store, and start heading home... I hope to be there by about nine pm. Not looking forward to the drive, but very excited for Ruthie's picnic.

It's been awhile....

Never a dull moment, I swear. The past two weeks have been a continuous stream of goings-on. So much homework to do, so much fun to be had, so much laundry to do!I've definitely been kept busy- last week was a World Civilizations exam, tomorrow a calculus exam, Wednesday an Engineering Drawing exam... not to mention math homework, and programming homework and world civ reading... Last Wednesday, I went to a concert at an indoor skatepark downtown which was pretty cool. Pictures are on my Flickr as usual. Then the Battlebot competition is this Friday and maybe the cabin? Craziness all around, pretty much.. and the rest of the semester doesn't look much better. But time really does move fast, this is week 6 of classes already. After this, there's eight more weeks of classes, then I have one week free and the next week I have two final exams then it's over. Scariest part? That will mean that I am 1/4 of the way done. Terrifying. Anyway, tonight I've dedicated two hours to studying calculus, and pretty much finished my essay that's due tomorrow- all that's left to do is to have Christine read over it. Tomorrow morning I'll memorize a few formulas for calc and by 6:30 tomorrow, one more miserable Tuesday will be out of the way. Well, maybe. Engineers for a Sustainable World is having a guest speaker at our club meeting tomorrow and perhaps I will go to that if I'm not too drained.
Hope to see you all soon!

To Quote Laura, Let's Start A Ra Ra Riot!

Liz and I started our weekend early on Saturday, at least by our standards. Instead of our usual 11 AM brunch, we met at 10:30 as soon as the dining hall opened in hopes of leaving UB by 11:30. By one we were at RIT with Laura. We spent the afternoon in her room before heading off for the concert.
It was in a beautiful old theater, which was both a nice and horrible surprise because 1:we could sit and 2:we had to sit. Or so we thought. We sat far back enough that we could see for the two opening bands, Phantogram and El Ka Bong, neither of which impressed me overmuch, but as soon as Ra Ra Riot came on, so many people rushed to the front that we could no longer see and moved back. Not content, I decided to go up to the front and take pictures. While crossing an empty row of seats in the dark, I made the unfortunate decision of running so as not to disturb the view of those behind me. Encoutering a seat that was down instead of folded up like the rest, I tripped and hit the floor hard. Really hard, succeeding in both giving myself a decent brush burn and doing something to my neck. The concert was still amazing, though I was a bit preoccupied with how much my arm hurt. Really, the night didn't go extremely well for me. All of my pictures came out awful as I only found the proper camera settings during the encore.

This was the best picture I got of the whole band (better quality on my Flickr). But I did get one picture which I really really like:


Even the horrible image quality turned out to be a blessing in disguise, the pixelation and color distrotion on her face makes it look like it's been run through some strange filter.

Then we come back to UB on Sunday and I did hardcore homework. Lots of it. And that was my weekend. It was definitely fun, and I would do it again. Actually, I will do it again. On March 27, when Ra Ra Riot are in Rochester again. And I'll get better pictures, promise!