Worth Every Minute

.....My Skittles, Snickers*, and I drove thirty minutes tonight and I bought these pencils at WalMart. The pencils on the right are my traditional pencils. I couldn't find them at the local WalMart. I have used this particular type of Bic pencil since I started school a year and a half ago. I am particularly partial to the yellow ones: they inspire me. The minis on the left are something new. I get stuck in my own little ruts, and thought it would be smart to branch out into something new for once. I still have the security of the pencil I am used to. They were worth every minute of the hour I spent in the car tonight.
.....The original purpose of our conquest to the neighboring town was not pencils, however, but a much worthier cause: Wendy's. There isn't a Wendy's here, and we wanted square hamburgers and fries dipped in frosties. I hadn't been to Wendy's in over five years: it was absolutely delicious.

Pocket Full of Sunshine

One of my skittles showed me this song. I think its my new favorite for a while. I don't think I'd mind a sweet escape to a secret place where there's only butterflies right now. A little light and sentimental maybe, but overall a very fun little song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9318frRhwNs

Enjoy!

Arby's

I have some inside information about the Arby's menu:

Chicken Tenders have been discontinued.

The new Chocolate Turnovers are absolutely superb.

The Five for Five deal has been changed to a Five for Six deal, and it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

If you find a name on a turnover, it doesn't necessarily mean the turnover has been reserved. It probably means my coworkers and I were kinda bored while we were frosting the turnovers. Its still edible, I promise.

The last Arby's news flash: there is a new camera system installed and it sees everything. If you steal a fry, we will know it.

Me

So this post is entirely about me. This post is to inform my reading world that I do have a reason for making this post, the previous post, and the following two posts--supposing I even get that far--the rottenest posts that I have done yet. The reason? I've been sick. Like can't-get-out-of-bed, puking-up-my-guts, pretty-much-dead sick. I wasn't sure I was gonna make it through the night Monday. Well, ok, maybe that's exaggerating just a little bit.
Anyways, I went to the school nurse and got myself a bunch of pills and I am better now, besides still having the symptom of low-quality blog posting.
Oh, and I would also like my reading world to know that we have an absolutely excellent new nurse this year who treated me very nicely. The old nurse was just a little surly. I think we interrupted her life too much. This new one is younger and more willing to believe we're sick.

Monday-Baseball

The baseball team split 2-2 in Louisiana last weekend. The team they played was previously undefeated, so looks like its a good deal. I don't think I'd like losing two of my first four games, but hey, I really don't know baseball. When I said something about losing before the season started M&M* informed me that "it's baseball. You can't help it. You're gonna lose games."
Butterfinger was pretty happy with the split. He said all four games were close enough they could have gone either way. He didn't get to play. Practice injury.
The boys are playing two teams in Texas this weekend. From what I hear, both of them are undefeated, too. I hope we get a few more wins.
I was really hoping that the boys would win their first five games. Some of the guys on the team mohawked their hair earlier this year, and there was a rumor that if they won the first five games their coach was gonna follow suit and mohawk his hair, too. I know the coach a little. It would have been hilarious to see him walking around with a mohawk. Maybe next year.
I'll be sure to update you on how the baseball team does this weekend.

Week in Review

This week, I:

>Drove for two hours (to and from) the chiropractor.

>Drove to Topeka with my mom and stayed the night.

>Missed all my classes and bible study on Thursday, since I was in Topeka.

>Got a scholarship thingumy.

>Trespassed.

>Got sick.

>Stayed sick.

>Worked every night I wasn't out of town.

>Was given seven major homework assignments, all due at the beginning of next week.

>Slept until four o'clock one day and completely missed all oportunity to do any kind of homework since I had to go to work at five.

>Found out two of my sisters were staying at my house two hours before they showed up.

>Discovered the dirtiest guy at work likes me. yay. not. think i'm gonna kill him.

Thank you for the lovely opportunity to share, I hope you all feel very sorry for me now.

Thursday Continued

This is a mural in the capitol. It features several different historical events that either happened in Kansas or had some significant relation with Kansas. The man with out stretched arms and washed out face is John Brown. I think he's fasinating, and he definitately makes Thursday a day worth two posts.

Thursday

This is the Kansas capitol in Topeka. I had the privilege of touring it. Pretty impressive, I've got to admit.

Road Trip

.....I went on a road trip this evening. Me and my skittle traveled about an hour to a small town so she could go to the chiropractor. So, while the college wasn't directly involved in this news flash, it was college related because we were traveling to get a college related injury treated. So as far as topic goes, I'd like you to know this can legally go on a college-focused blog.
.....My skittle was remarking on the way home how fun it is to visit small towns where the grocery stores are carpeted and tiny and its easier to find the library than a gas station. I agree. Revisiting tiny towns makes me feel street-wise and experienced (ya right).
.....I lived in a small town before moving to this slightly-less-microscopic town. When I first got here I was pretty thrilled with the entertainment prospects. There was a theatre, a Pizza Hut, three decent resturants, a Claire's, a Maurices, two shoe stores, and (yay!) a WalMart. After spending the last fifteen of my eighteen years in a town where the closest WalMart was an hour and a half away, I thought I was living the high life. I remember being stressed about all the trafic the first couple times I drove to school. Thankfully, my friends have drug me around to various cities and I've begun to realize that this town is actually pretty small.
.....Back to topic: we went to the crackerpracker, stopped by the local grocery store for a snack, and hunted down the gas station. Then we headed home. Thrilling news, I know.

Oh oh oh! Funny story!
So I was talking to Butterfinger* earlier, and I was like
"Yeah, what about that text I sent you?"
And he was all
"Oh, that was you?"
"Yeah, I got a new number. Oh hey do you want it?"
"I actually don't have my phone with me. I'll get it Thursday."
(seriously here, folks, what kind of jock has the nerve to be polite enough to go to class without his cell phone? Let's get with the program here, dude!)
"But I won't be here Thursday." (I have to go to Topeka for some junk)
"Oh yeah, I knew that."
"You won't be here Thursday."
(This is kinda a big deal: out-of-state trip, gonna last almost a week, their first game of the spring season)
"Oh yeah!"
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and it was funny.

Pie Graph Breakdown of Important College Activities

Purple: Hanging with my skittles.

Gray: Class

Orange: Studying/doing homwork.

Blue: Sleeping

White: Filling out tons and tons of stupid applications for a gabillion things like getting into a university or getting scholarships and junk that I really hate doing.

Brown: Eating Pudding.

Green: Work Study. Fun fun.

Red: Going to Walmart. Ya, its Colby, we get bored.

Friday

.....I got to World Lit Wednesday morning a little late. Plopped into my seat and scrambled to get my paper and pencil out and answer the warm-up question on the board. As I finished it up and my teacher came around to collect it, I noticed everyone turning in two papers. I peeked over at the papers in front Agreeable*. A warm-up on one page, and a chunky paragraph on the other page.
.....Oh snap! Our thesis statements for our first essay were due! I jerked a page out of my binder. I'd hardly given ten minutes thought to the topic I'd cover in our essay. I scrawled down a single sentence that said something about comparing Nora and Antigone and strengths and character and whatever else junk I could think of that sounded good.
We got our thesis statements back Friday after an announcement about making up the points we fell short by revising them. I fully expected to be spending a good chunk of time doing exactly that.
.....I got full points for the thesis statement along with a personal note from the teacher saying she was looking forward to reading my paper.
At first I was pretty excited. I'll be the first to admit I'm a bit of a suck up and I enjoy pleasing my teachers.
.....But everything has its price.
.....I realized that there's no way around it now and I'm actually going to have to put a little effort into writing this paper...

Thursday

Thursday night was bible study. We're doing a study on prayer. So far I have really enjoyed it. The discussion we had last Thursday was very thought provoking. Some really good points were made and the discussion aspect of it kept me involved. This Thursday we watched a dvd. The speaker was pretty good at keeping me listening and, considering my kindergarten-sized attention span, that's saying something.
Next Thursday is Valentines, and apparently that means deviating from the usual schedule in bible study. There's gonna be some guest speakers, couples if I remember right, to talk on love. If its like last year, they'll probably tell their own love stories and point out all the things they did right and all the things they did wrong. Last year it was really good; definitely one of the more exciting bible studies. Unfortunately for me, I have to be in Topeka this year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping some of my friends will fill me in on everything I miss.

Wednessday

Last Wednesday night the Trojan men defeated their opposing team in overtime. I don't remember the exact score, but I do remember it was pretty exciting to watch.
I came to the game later than usual because I'd just gotten off of work. Generally speaking, I have trouble getting into ball games. This was no exception. I sat up in the top row with a dude in one of my classes: we talked literature until my two skittles* arrived. But in between discussion on Editha and Mark Twain I did manage to notice the game was pretty close. After I moved down a couple rows to sit with my skittles I started paying better attention, but then the cheerleaders started throwing headbands into the crowd and I started noticing who had one and who didn't and, well, the best I could tell you is our boys fought pretty hard to take home a victory that night.

Just thought the world should know what a heavy load we college kids carry. Literally. Like on our backs.

Sunday Night's Movie review

We watched another comedy tonight: Dumb and Dumber. I thoroughly expected it to live up to its title and just be dumb, kinda like White Chicks. It was dumb, but to the extreme extent that it was pretty much hilarious.
The plot in this movie was completely unreal, too. Maybe stupid plots are a thing with comedies. The humor, however, which was pretty much the whole movie, pretty much made the movie. Perhaps its possible that since I was occupied with braiding my best friend's hair I could laugh at the funny parts and ignore the stupid parts.
Anyways, I would definitely recommend choosing Dumb and Dumber over White Chicks.

Friday Night's Movie Review (a little late)

We watched White Chicks Friday night. I have to be honest here: I thought it was retarded. I'm not sure if it was the completely unconvincing plot, my distaste for movies that make me sympathize with embarrassing situations, or the less-than-intelligent humor in the movie that made me dislike it as much as I did.

For those of you that don't know, the somewhat involved plot of White Chicks lands two black FBI agents in a situation where they have to dress up as and act like two young white sisters who are very much into fashion. That right there? Anyone knows you couldn't really pull that off. Perhaps I'm expecting too much, and perhaps most audiences aren't concerned with believability, but major flaws like that make movies difficult for me to enjoy.

The humor in it was funny in some places, I can give it that. Other "funny" parts made me want to groan or duck.

Other than that, though, Friday night was fun.