The weather...

..And the forecast is unbearably cold followed by more miserable weather. Spring break cannot come soon enough.

The good news is I will be living pretty permanently in Atlanta in a few months! When there is any thought that there MIGHT be snow, schools close. Businesses stop working. Churches stop congregating. The city stops - and the next day the snow does not even come. It's great.

Down side: living in Atlanta means not living in Bloomington. where your friends are always a five minute walk away and there is ALWAYS something fun and exciting to do. The city will be a different story.

In other news, I do have to write a 10 page story within the next week for my creative writing class and I have no ideas in mind. We have to focus on "character development." I can write all you want about a journey to the center of the earth or something more original, but writing this kind of fiction is HARD to make up. I have one idea concerning a political activist that is not living true to her own values (what else is new about politicians?). But I was thinking about using my summer at Parliament for some of the material. For example, I can make the setting London since I am pretty familiar with the geography.

This weekend - no exciting plans so far other than a LOT of reading and writing. The last couple weekends have been pretty busy so I may take it easy.

Tomorrow I have to participate in what they in the Kelley school call K-Lead. Since I am in the honors management class, I get to judge all the students in the regular classes as they present me with an idea to make our "company" better.

I am not getting off that easy though - I do have to be available tomorrow for 3 hours and write a paper on the students' communication styles. Should be interesting.

Rollercoaster

My days have been really volatile lately - yesterday I woke up at 10:30am (yes!) and went to work from 12-4pm, but then I had the rest of the day to work on homework.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, however, are a different story. I have 4 classes on Tuesday and 5 on Thursday! This is what I get for trying to give myself three days off of class a week!

Tuesday I had class from 9:30 to 3:45pm, then I rushed to the Boys and Girls Club to visit my little. It was good to see her since we had not met in a while. She was in a very active mood. We went first to try and find Baked to get cookies, but I thought it was on 4th street when it is in fact on 3rd street so we walked in huge circles around a few blocks for about thirty minutes. Then we decided just to stop at Soma, after discovering Baked does not open now before 8pm.

After that we went to the library, then we went back to club to play on the playground. We ended the night playing ping pong.It was a busy visit!

The rest of the night I baked cookies and led the first WIB meeting of the semester.

I am looking forward to a nice and relaxing weekend :).

Prediction

This semester is going to be nice, I can already tell. I am taking two english courses, an astronomy course, management, and an economic topics class. So far it does not seem like it is going to be too crazy (hopefully I am not speaking too soon).

I do miss having all of my classes in the business school - I really loved my BEPP classes last semester. Now I almost feel like an arts & sciences student, with most of my classes in various places around campus.

I spent most of the weekend reading a book called, The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien. I read it for my contemporary fiction class, and it was easy to stay glued to it all weekend. It's a story about a Vietnam veteran and if you like war stories, I highly recommend it. It's gory at times, but it almost makes you feel what its like to be a veteran of a controversial war.

My English classes are always really fun because I HAVE to set aside time to read novels that I would love to be able to read in my free time. Next week, I will be reading Maus I (I don't even know what it's about yet but hopefully it's good!)

Hopefully I will have a more exciting post next week! This past week was pretty uneventful. Mostly I am somewhat sad about graduating soon! I have an awesome job that starts in June and I am completely ready for it, but I also enjoy being a kid in college :).

Last Semester!

Sooo... I have not updated my blog in a really long time. It is because the month of November was insane, and December did not change much. Last I wrote I believe I was talking about job interviews, and interviewing itself became a full-time job. I had final rounds from all my interviews, so I spent November traveling around the country.

I basically had to miss about a month of some of my classes, which was reallly rough. Luckily enough people were willing to let me look at their class notes, and everything was okay when it came final time.

In the first week of December I accepted a full-time offer! I will be starting with Newell Rubbermaid in Atlanta, GA on May 31st as an Organizational Effectiveness Specialist. I will basically be an in-house consultant for the company, working on different projects as assigned to me by the VP of Change Management. There is also a chance I may get to travel to Europe... yes!

Currently I am in relaxation mode. It is the third week of Winter Break, so I am having a great time at home with friends and family. I always miss Bloomington though! I am going back on Saturday.

This semester is the final one of my college career. I am going to miss it soo much! I think it will be easier to write on my blog each week - so check for updates!