So, it's coming up on mid-November, which means Thanksgiving holidays and my first trip home to Minnesota since August. I'm looking forward to the visit, despite its brevity. It'll be nice to see the cousins and parents, and hopefully some of the friends (if they stay in town).
I'm already gearing up for Christmas break. I found a place for Charlie to stay during my time home. He won't be happy, but it's only for two weeks, so he'll just have to deal with being locked up in a cage with other kitties surrounding him. I'm also pretty excited about the ORF pub crawl in December. I sorta miss my ultimate buddies! A2 ultimate was fun, but it just wasn't ORF!
Speaking of frisbee, Steve, Katie B and I are signing up for the late-fall league together. It'll be cold, but lots of fun to play with them. So, that starts this week and goes to Dec 19. And, yes, we play outside! I haven't decided whether or not to play winter league.
We're playing broomball through intermural sports. It's really a lot of ridiculous fun. I had to buy my own helmet though, because none of the helmets there fit my tiny head. We have yet to win a game, though if the other SPH team was sans Evan we totally would have owned them. I managed to knock Angela's broom out of her hand and send her flying accidentally last game, and I totally tried to get in Evan's way but... he just knows where to be! Whatever, it's a great time. So great that we're going to play the winter league.
Sarah, Steve, Andy, Josh
Mallory, Kellie, Sam, Alicia, Emily, Krishna
Last week, I had my second pathophys test of the semester. I don't think it went as well as I had hoped, mostly because I have no chemistry background so when I was answering the questions on metabolic acidosis/alkalosis, I couldn't remember exactly what happened in the kidneys. Oops! My memory tends to fail me frequently.
To celebrate finishing my pathophys test, as well as getting my final paper outline in for my genetics course, I drank myself stupid on Saturday night. (Maybe I should have put a warning before this paragraph for my mother...) Kellie and I each brought a bottle of wine with us over to Mark's house and finished them off. We were doing cartwheels outside. Turns out that the urban planning people really like us SPHers... because they're predominantly male and we're all female. I guess we've all got to branch out, and it takes a house like Mark's in order to do so.
Friday night, I went to my first hockey game ever! Well, aside from high school hockey.... Surprising, since I'm a Minnesotan. But, I never went to Stars games or Wild games, nor had I made it to a Gopher hockey game. So... we went. A big group of us. It was a blast! I was glad Sarah was there to tell me what was going on with the penalties. Also, I had just re-watched The Mighty Ducks about a week previous to the game, so my hockey knowledge was fresh.
So, grad school is still great, though they keep trying to stress me out. I look at my friends around me during test time and am really glad I am who I am... it takes a lot more than a silly examination to cause sleeplessness and unease! Take that, grad school!
I'll try to be a better blogger from now on. I must keep my few readers interested and coming back for more.
Alicia, Kellie, Ali, Steve
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