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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Several somewhat randomly unrelated things
First of all, I have to mention Jonathan Brandis. I will, however, let my sister speak for me. I haven't completely read her post on this topic, but am sure that what she said also applies to me. Beth's post.
I am currently sitting on the floor in my sister's house in Wisconsin. I thought this was where I would be for my entire Thanksgiving Break, but I found out otherwise not from my sister, not from my parents, not from my brother-in-law, but from my brother-in-law's mother! I just find that so funny, but pretty typical of our family. :-) So I get to see my beloved state and town before Christmas afterall!! I also hopefully get to see Megan Thomas and Molly!! And maybe check some CDs out from the Ames Public Library. And maybe get to play some disc golf?? And maybe get to see some Iowa State basketball!! :-)
My fish, btw, are fine and liking the change of scenery I think. ;-)
Speaking of libraries... That is somewhere I think I would really enjoy working. I've actually thought that for a while and am now wishing I had library experience, which I tried for both in Ames and at GC but my timing was always bad. Rebecca, the wife of my pastor in Greenville, works at the Greenville Public Library. I might see if I could get some experience through volunteering there.
Speaking of jobs I'd like to do... This will soon be put into a paper for my Com/MP Seminar class, but I have realized that no matter what I end up doing with my life, I will still be able to use what I learned from my degree. Even as a stay at home mom (which is my first choice, but not looking very likely at least for a while), I can use my PR/promotion skills for church and/or community things I'm involved with. In all honesty, I don't have a desire to have a career in it. That makes post-graduation something kind of strange for me to think about right now. So what are jobs I'd gladly take on? (In no specific order.) Church secretary. Secretary/administrative assistant. Copy-editor for a small newspaper (i.e. not daily :-)). Or, what would be really nice is copy-editing/proofreading that I could do from home (i.e. wherever I chose to live). This, then, is why I am a section editor for The Vista and I think I'm going to be a copy-editor for The Papyrus next semester.
I had to sit here and think for about a minute before I remembered what the other thing I was going to say was: GILMORE GIRLS IS COMING OUT ON DVD!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best news since....well, since Steve Taylor performing at festivals this summer and me getting to see him not just once, but twice!
And Steve Taylor reminds me... Congrats many times over to Melissa and Darrin on your engagement! It is about dang time! ;-) Let the northward-bound January travel plans begin... :-D
Monday, November 17, 2003
And then there were two.
Yeah, that third goldfish didn't even last a night. Beth and Josh will get to meet my two survivors since I'm too cheap and lazy to go to Wal-Mart for weekend feeder tablets and Bill doesn't care if I take them with on the drive to Crystal Lake.
And I just have to say...yay for some Hawkeye fans actually having some redeeming qualities sometimes. *grin* Like, for instance, giving a poor, pathetic Cyclone fan a ride to and from northern Illinois so she doesn't have to take the train which means, of course, that she can take her fish and laundry with her... ;-) And yay even more for getting to see my sister in just over a week!! I believe the last time was July 5th dropping me off at the train depot, wasn't it? Crazy. :-)
I'm seriously ready for break. Start it right now, please. Oh, but Prof. Ross canceled a paper that was due the Monday before Thanksgiving and pushed back our paper due the Monday we get back from Thanksgiving to Wednesday. Happy, happy Karly... :-D
Random fact for the day... I am becoming rather addicted to Creme Savers. Prof. Ross always has them on her desk in her office and I got some at the union the other day. Good stuff, don't you think? :-)
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Heeeeeere fisheeeey, fisheeeey, fisheeeey...
For now, I have three fish again. Let me explain the different places from whence these goldfish came.
Every year for Halloween Burritt Hall (consisting, for those non-GC people, of Burritt (the original dorm), Burritt Annex (where I lived last year), and Dallas Annex (suite-style rooms)...all of these in one connected building) holds trick-or-treating in the dorm for the community. It is, however, also a competition between floors for best theme/decorations. The different floors are determined by location in the building. For example, last year I lived on 2nd Burritt Annex (a.k.a. 2BA) because we were the second floor of Burritt Annex. :-) This competition is judged on theme, effort, creativity, and activities for the kids. The judges are professors and administrators. I participated in this with 2BA because Melissa (the RC this year) really wanted to win and it was going to be fun. They picked the theme of Pirates of the Carribean. We converted the hallway into a shipdeck and the lounge was the dock, complete with a "sea" and fish. The "sea" was a kiddie pool filled with water and the fish were about 60 goldfish from Wal-Mart, which the kids got to feed if they wanted. I was going to put up some pictures for you all, but for some reason the server is hating me right now. With a perfect score of 100 from all the judges, 2BA got 1st place and a pizza party! :-D It was great fun.
After that night, however, the fish needed homes, so I took 4 home with me. I went to the thrift store and found a small fishbowl for 50 cents. Bought some food, then this past weekend went to Wal-Mart and got some fake plants and gravel for the bottom of the bowl. The two biggest died within the first couple of days, but the other two seem to be doing really well so far.
So how did I get a third fish again? One of the assignments for my Small Group Communication class is to plan a party for the rest of the class. Today's group had a birthday party, which, btw, was the funnest party so far. Some of the prizes for the games was real, live goldfish (courtesy of 2BA, of course...I asked :-)). Meg actually won the fish, but she has a beta and didn't think the two would get along too well. So I have three fish again. :-)
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Good from Greenville
Lately I have really just not wanted to be here at all. Admittedly, I am getting rather tired of the whole college atmosphere and the idiotic/ignorant people that seem to be everywhere in it. Be all that as it may, however, good things have happened in my life as a result of being down here the past two school years. One is the person I sat with in chapel, just had lunch with, and will have class with in an hour and a half.
I came to Greenville College almost a year and a half ago with a hope that I would get a certain boyfriend. I, thankfully, did not. I did, however, get a really good friend. No, not Geoff. I hardly ever see or talk to Geoff. No, that good friend is Meg, his girlfriend. She's extremely nice, fun, from Iowa, and an all-around great girl. She was great at encouraging me to finish the All-College Hike as a competition instead of just a walk. (Although I still haven't seen my t-shirt from that and it was almost two months ago. :-P) Anyway, I really don't know how better to describe her, but he's got himself a good one and I'll beat him up if he lets her go. :-) It'd probably be with her help, though since she's the martial arts expert. ;-) One of my favorite things she said to me before class one day was after I told her I was scared of her because she could beat me up, she said, "yeah, but I'd feel really bad about it after." :-)
There's more good that's come from being down here than just that, but I've just been wanting to share that one for a while because it makes me smile. :-)
Sunday, November 02, 2003
I just don't get it
A thousand different pairs of shoes.....a thousand different purses/bags.....a thousand different hair-styling products.....a thousand different kinds of makeup.....a thousand different necklaces/pieces of jewelry....a thousand different coats....
.....Am I missing something that I don't have these things?
Completely unrelated: I have fishies now! Earlier today I had four, but now I only have three. Such is the life of a goldfish.
Think small!
I remember when I was in elementary school I used to look through the cities and towns in the back of our Rand McNally road atlas, writing down all the towns with a population under 1000. The thought in my mind, as I recall, was "here are places I could possibly live when I grow up."
Living in Greenville for over a year has only reinforced this desire to live in a small town, not necessarily quite as small as under 1000, but small nonetheless. I'd say Ames would be high-end limit, but even Ames doesn't feel like the 50,000 it now claims. Last weekend I went to St. Louis with a group from school to visit the Holocaust Museum and as we were driving through first the suburbs then the city itself, all I kept thinking was, "I can't stand this....the tall buildings, the congestion, the distance from open fields...." The people in small towns are great, too. Let me tell you a story...
I baked cookies yesterday but needed to buy, well, all the ingredients. I, as most of you know, do not have a car, therefore I walked to SuperValu. As I was checking out and my cashier was bagging my flour, sugar, etc., she turned to me and asked, "are you walking?" "Yes." "OK, I'll double bag these then." Which she did, then I paid and she said, "Actually, I'm going off for lunch right now, would you like a ride?" So I took her up on it, which was a very good thing because it was raining pretty hard by then and all the ingredients combined were really heavy. :)
BTW, I will point out that I don't mind visiting the nicer big cities (Chicago, Kansas City, etc.), I just could never live there.
