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Hi friends. So while I’m sitting here procrastinating some more on the work I need to get done by the end of the day, I figured I’d actually post something. Being that I have nothing in particular to post about I will probably be rambling for the most part so if you have no patience for such things I suggest you don’t read on.
So let’s see. I’ve had Christmas break and started a new semester since the last post. My schedule is crazily confusing this semester. and it’s mostly because of my education class. The class meets over two class periods on Monday and Wednesday and then for only one class period on Friday. I do get to TA techniques this semester, and I’m having a fun time with that. However, my hours are weird because of having to work around the ED-20 schedule. My other class is CHM-34, otherwise known as Physical Chemistry II/Techniques II. What a combination, right? It doesn’t involve much lab time at all, but the lab reports are killer. I spent the better part of my long weekend (as in several hours a day and then some) trying to finish the first one, and it’s supposed to be the easy one. One of the hardest parts is working with a computer program called Igor. It’ll be a really useful program once I actually know how to use it, but until then it will be the bane of my existence.
I’m also playing intramural basketball and bowling this semester with IGU (Independent Girls United)(i.e. the team for upperclassmen girls who aren’t in a sorority but still want to play intramurals). IGU is doing really well in the overall intramural standings. I’m pretty sure that we are beating everybody else right now, and if we can do well in bowling and basketball it will stay that way. So far, bowling is going very well. There’s one girl on our team who scores of 130 every time she plays, and I’m also decently good despite what you all might have observed. As some of you know, it is generally my fervent goal to break 100, and I usually fail. I was thus very happy when I got a 105 in the first game, but I was a great deal more excited about the 167 in the second game. That’s right, 167–my new all-time record. It seems that I somehow gain some sort of temporary bowling skill every time I’m actually in competition.
Bowling may be going well, but my basketball team could be doing better. We lost our first game by about 30 points. Luckily, however, I am not on the IGU team that counts for points in the overall competition so that fact that my team stinks is not a huge issue. We actually played the other IGU team tonight, and they are very good (hopefully good enough to win the overall title) so they beat us too. It was still a lot of fun, and though I missed somewhere around a thousand shots, I actually scored a three-pointer (my first ever in any sort of officially organized game) on the buzzer at the end of the game. This may have been my only score the whole game, but let me tell you, I was excited. It may have been a complete mess of random luck, but it still happened. And my excitement from this led me to finally finish this post which I started last week. The end.