Worth the Candle

Whew! We are officially finishing up week 7 of 15!! That means we are over halfway done with Fall semester 2010. I also get to go home this weekend (it's kind of a reward for finishing all my midterm stuff, I think!) and I'm very excited to be home!!

Things are looking up after getting through the thick of midterms and class stuff. I'm not going to think about finals yet, though. I've been trying to get ahead on some of my homework and preview lessons. It seems like as soon as I get through something big, I try to take a break and then I fall behind and have to work really hard to get back on track. I'm hoping that I can keep up with homework even with going home this weekend.

Tomorrow I get to schedule classes at 8:00 a.m. Unfortunately, I have a class at 8, but I'm going to take my computer to class early so I can just go to class a little late. If you think I'm crazy, you don't know how competitive this is. Think of it this way. All the upper-sophomores (hundreds of us) are all competing for many of the same classes. My two Spanish classes only have 4 & 5 seats left. AND, if you don't get one right class....you have to change your ENTIRE schedule. This is the first semester where I haven't woken up at 7:50 just to roll out of bed to schedule classes at 8:00:01 and then gone back to sleep!

Finally, I would like to give a shout out to all WMU students. Good work on those midterms not only through the constant pounding, beeping, etc. of Sangren construction, but also fording the tornado-like winds to get to class just for a stupid midterm! Impressive! :D

I'm off to change my sheets, write some Spanish, help Ira study for his Spanish and hopefully get a jump on a couple of papers due Monday & Tuesday!

Hasta luego!
Sydney

Alas! another week, gone--as Dumbledore would say! I'm currently at work and I just had the pleasure of serving an adorably polite little girl (probably 4) and her dad. I love seeing happy families! On top of that, I just saw the smallest wedding party in the world go to dinner at Fieldstone (the business man restaurant next to WVFY). Odd....

So much MORE has happened this week. I am feeling pretty down lately, but I'm getting through. I'm still working on a lot of midterms and a few group projects that just plain take a lot of time. My brain is usually pretty fuzzy feeling, but it's still getting me through all this homework! I'm feeling less tired this week, thankfully. I'm taking vitamin D and a vitamin B-complex and vitamin C so I should be healthy in all! And, Grammie-I'm drinking water until I feel like it is going to come out my ears! :D I also heard tell that you were making me some oils which would be much appreciated as my allergy one is all gone!

My other big news this week is that I am officially quitting my job! It is altogether too much to handle an off campus job right now and I think it is just going to get worse once finals hit. I will most likely be working next semester on campus.

That's all for now, but I'll keep you posted and maybe pictures from an anniversary date next time! :D

Whew! Here it is, Saturday night and I am finally feeling caught up from this week. I can't even begin to explain what an awful week it was. It is almost far enough away to where I can laugh, but not quite.
Monday-Ira and I donated blood. A bad nurse flattened out one of my veins (quite painful) and I had to be stuck in both arms. Ira came over for moral support, but in a combination of seeing me in pain and not eating enough, he passed out at my feet. I had to be restrained by a nurse (how reality TV does that sound?) and we both had to stay in recovery for a couple hours. We each ended up missing a couple classes, which only set us behind for the week....
Tuesday-just busy, I had to boogy from class to work and back to class
Wednesday-I forgot to go to work...actually I didn't know I had to work and in my defense I'm not supposed to be scheduled for Wednesday work...I don't have time on Wednesdays!
Thursday-I was begging the week to be over!
Friday-I had a hemangioma removed, but it wasn't too big of a deal. Ira left for fall retreat...I was basically just exhausted.
So yeah, like I said, I'm feeling much better, but not looking forward to plowing through more school. I'm going in on the 29th for an echo cardiogram. I have slight heart murmur, but I've been really short of breath and am really, really tired all the time. I'm kind of hoping something shows up that is fixable. Maybe I'm not supposed to be this tired all the time.
I'm plugging away in my classes. It's definitely been a busy semester, only to get busier. Midterms are not this week, but next week. It feels like we've been in school for more than 6 weeks, that's for sure. Hopefully I'll get a jump on homework and be set for the next couple weeks in classes
I've been keeping in decent contact w/ my friend in China. She's having a great time and I'm super excited for her. I have to admit, though--I've been craving authentic Chinese food for a while!
Ira and I have been able to do and plan a lot of fun things, lately. He took me to the movies one night and we've gone out to dinner a couple times. We also have our tickets to Wicked (as the picture shows)!! Ira refused to give his "excited-for-tickets" face so he wasn't allowed in the pic! :D
Anyway, I think I'm going to turn in soon and get even MORE sleep this weekend!

I am sitting in my blueberry-frozen-yogurt spattered work clothes drinking a flat Den Pop thinking about Ira at his first keg party (no worries--it's a root beer kegger!). How social am I? (Do you end rhetorical questions with at ??) Somehow I ended up with only some Shakespeare to read as homework; been there done that. This week entails volunteering at the Study Abroad Fair and making a schedule for next semester, but not much else.

I ended up printing out a bunch of my pictures from China. Now that I'm home, I miss it...kind of. I liked spending RMB because it kind of felt like spending Monopoly money, not my own. I miss the Great Wall (by far my favorite thing we visited). I want to start rock climbing. I miss my Chinese friends. I miss taking tons of pictures. Sometimes I wish I wanted to do more after classes. Between homework and wanting to go to bed, I don't really squeeze much else in...except eating. I can always squeeze food into my life.

This isn't turning out to be a very exciting, uplifting post. I'll try to do better! :D love you all!!!!