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.