Blue are the curtains that evening has spun...

Yesterday I read psych. Psych psych psych. I’m sick of psych. I mean, seriously, one can only take so much psych. Chapters 6 and 9 were fairly interesting but chapter 7 was boring. I had to read chapters 8 and 10 today and finish the extra credit assignment. Viel Spass.

Aside from psych, I didn’t do much yesterday. Oh, wait! There were some interesting developments yesterday, but I’m not going to write about them because most people wouldn’t understand their significance. But anyway, yesterday we decorated our hall in a “Dawn of the Dead” theme. Blah, it’s now dark and depressing in the hallway. Also, I went to Huron Hills for the first time in three weeks, and the teacher of our class was a professor from the UM law school. I thought that was cool.

Today I took a German test… that definitely could’ve gone better. I should’ve studied more. Oh well. But I got an A on my German paper and that made me really happy, so it’s all good. The linguistics lecture was boring, so Tina and I made our own entertainment. The hour was made more interesting though when it was pointed out that hot prof was at the lecture. All of the material was quite easy except there was one thing I didn’t really get (maybe because I wasn’t really listening because I was constantly looking towards the right side of the room… maybe it’s left disregard or maybe it’s hot prof regard… the world may never know).

This afternoon and evening was basically all psych. Ahh. I have read 5 chapters in my psych book in the past 3 days and it took me about 2 hours to read each one. Blah. ...10 hours of reading psych textbook. Thus I don't have much to say tonight. Dinner was gross. Stupid person never answers his phone. In fact, he never even has his phone on! What's the point of a phone if you never have it on? Arg. Ok, I'm done.

Another thing, I don't like it how people come to college and then swallow everything their professors tell them. At college, people should learn how to think not be taught what to think. Perhaps some are just more impressionable than others. I don't know.

Oh, and halloween is stupid.

Yellow the stars as they ride through the night...

College has made me stupider in some respects. In the last post, there were at least two spots where I used the wrong form of a word (write istead of right, read instead of red), and I've noticed myself using the wrong form of "there" somtimes. I'm just nuts, I guess.

Today I went to a cider mill and a corn maze. That was fun. I had this one apple batter glazed doughnut and that was really good. The weather was really nice too. It was around 60 degrees and sunny (not a single cloud in the sky). After the corn maze (which someone cleverly suggested should be called a maize maze), I ended up with corn in my pocket.

I've been studying psych for much of the evening. I'm doing this mostly because I promised my GSI I'd do better on the multiple choice part of the exam on Thursday. Not that it makes any difference to him if I do better or not, but he made me promise and so here I am reading psych (I'm taking a break right now though).

Michigan beat Northwestern, 33-17. I didn't watch one second of the game (because I was studying). However, I did keep up with the score on foxsports.com... it refreshed itself every 90 seconds.

It's unfortunate... I don't care about money, I care about people. Damnit!

That's a quote from Danielle, my RA.

I saw senator John Edwards today. He was in the Diag talking about something. I didn’t stay to listen even though I helped advertise for the event. Yes, I advertised for the democrats… I’m such a traitor. I was walking back from the math lab at 10pm(ish) and I crossed paths with Priya, a girl who was on my hall last year, and she talked me into writing “Edwards, 11:30, Diag” with chalk on the sidewalk.

Speaking of the math lab, I spent 4 hours there yesterday and didn’t even end up with the right answers. For one, there was a GSI who didn’t know how to solve it, and it was just dumb for the others. I got answers, but not good ones.

But no, I actually spent 5 hours in East Hall yesterday. The other hour, I was in my psych GSI’s office going over my exam and talking about why I didn’t do well. It was a good thing I went because he gave me an extra point on the exam.

Today was a bad day. It was just awful. There was some good stuff, but the overall feeling was bleh. It all started with my painful heel. I had to limp for the vast majority of the day because my heel is splitting on the side. Then before I left for class, my glasses broke. Well they didn’t break, a screw came out. Yes, I have a screw loose. So I was already late leaving for class and didn’t have time to fix them so I said “screw it” and put in my contacts even though I wasn’t supposed to because of the pink eye.

Then I went to linguistics and got my exam back. It said that I had gotten a B, and that was quite upsetting. So I checked it and it ended up that the GSI added wrong and so I really had a 93.3%. And then I was almost late for calc. Calc was funny though because half the class dressed up like the professor (a collar shirt with a sweater over it). He usually takes off his sweater halfway through the class and throws it in the corner because he gets hot, and so when he did that so did everyone who had dressed up as him. Then he finally caught on what was going on and he laughed. Someone said, “you love us, don’t you” and he agreed. I don't know... he's cool.

Then I studied German, which was fun because German is the best ever. During this time, I called my nurse practitioner lady (because of the contacts thing) and she made me make an appointment with the eye clinic. But then I didn’t remember if my appointment was for 3:15 or 3:50, and so I went early and found out. It was at 3:50. So I went to Kalli’s office hours to talk about study abroad in Germany. Afterwards, I went to the eye clinic and the lady told me that I could wear my contacts because it looked the like infection was gone. But now my right eye is red again, so I don’t know. Arg, I’m having issues.

There was more stuff, but nothing I want to retell at this point.

Alaska Cake

Where shall I begin?

I had a linguistics exam yesterday. It seemed fairly easy… hopefully I wasn’t an idiot on it. I finished early and I was on the last question when he said that we should be halfway through. Hopefully I did well.

Afterwards, I went to UHS and got through surprisingly quickly. I was in and out in less than an hour. It turns out that I have pink eye. Yeah, I already suspected that. There really isn’t any reason to go to the doctor because I can usually figure out what is wrong with me before I go anyway. I now have eye drops for my eye, which is pink.

I hate waiting around. Arg.

Last night I went to a concert in Hill Auditorium again. This time it was the orchestra and they first played Nanking! Nanking! and the composer was actually there directing it. Then afterwards was Symphony No. 9 in D Minor by Beethoven. That was really really cool. The last movement had some singing alone with the instruments and it was in German. I was pumped. But then I was 20 minutes late to a meeting which was scheduled around me to begin with and so I felt bad. But it was all good.

We had Bible study with Ryan and Brandon’s group tonight, and it was thoroughly insightful and enjoyable.

Today was typical. German, calc, psych. Nothing interesting except that I finally got a different score on my calc homework. I have been getting 26/30 every single time, but this time I got 27/30 and so that was good. I became very hyperactive later in the evening and… yeah… that was a bit interesting. Here are some results of the hyperactivity:
Sarah (to Tina on AIM): don't try to hide from me
S: i know where you live
S: AHH! the microwave is attacking the room!
S: run for your life!
S: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
S: **blood splatters on screen**
S: **muffled moan in background** help.... me........
S: **suddenly sadistic microwave beeping is all that can be heard**
S: **fade to black**
Later…
Tina: No, make [your away message] shorter
S: i will not
S: sam i am
S: i will not eat green eggs and ham
T: fjdksla?
S: i will not eat them in a box
T: you're being a weirdo
S: i will not eat them with a fox
S: i will not eat them with a dort
S: i will not make my message short
T: dort?
S: yes
T: that's not real
S: a dort
S: it means "there" in german
T: well, it means NOTHING in english
S: yes it does
S: it means a weird blonde girl named tina
S: was that you that just made those noises?
S: like a nazi siren… or a dying cat?
T: are you mocking my random singing?????!!?!?!?
S: i couldn't tell it was singing from this distance!
S: ANYWAY... i must do german now
S: or else my microwave will attack again
T: microwave... ATTACK!
T: i'm commanding your microwave thru telepathic rays
S: you should use microwaves
S: heh heh heh
S: get it?
T: hahaa.. shut up and do more German

By the way, does anyone know what Alaska Cake is?

45 Virgins and a Pelican

I listened to the driver's training song recently. Ah, the memories.

What do you think I was doing this past Friday night and Sunday afternoon? Why, homework of course. I'm writing my German paper at this very moment... well not at this exact moment because I'm writing in my blog right now, but you get the idea. Thus far I have 300ish words out of 400 total, so I'm over halfway finished.
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Ben and Ross came down to UM yesterday. We went to Band-O-Rama, which was awesome. I really liked the song by Frank Ticheli (who is a UM alumnus). It was its world premiere and I think Ticheli was actually there. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was really cool too. In fact, I liked all the songs that the Concert Band and Symphony Band played. The Marching Band was hot too, of course. Ross and Ben left around noon today. Ahh, it was some good times.

It's really hard to adjust to glasses after 5 straight years on contacts.
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I'm still sick... blah... and I thought I had more to say, but apparently I don't.
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"Been beat up, been broken down, nowhere but up when you're facedown on the ground. I'm in last place if I place at all, but there's hope for this underdog!"

Quote from calc on Friday...
The professor to the class about the new homework: "I was going to give you more 'Problems Plus', but I felt sorry for you." Nice.
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I was reading my linguistics notes this afternoon and that is where the title came from. Yes, the title came from my linguistics notes.

I think I'll pitch a tent in East Hall.

Yes, seriously I practically live in East Hall. This week (including tomorrow), I was in there from 11-12 MTuWF, 2:30-4:00 W, 3:00-4:00 Th, 7:00-9:00 Th, and 4:00-5:00 F. That is 10.5 hours in one building over a period of 5 days, and only 4 of those hours were for a class. It's nuts.

Today was a mix of good and bad. I'll start off with the bad.
Bad:
-I woke up after a rough night feeling more sick than ever.
-I was forced to do an impromptu presentation in German even though the sickness made my head so fuzzy that I could hardly think.
-I became more apprehensive about the study abroad decision that is facing me.
-I was almost hit by a huge bus, and when I say almost I mean it was no more than 2 feet away from me when it stopped.
Good:
-I was still excited about my German major.
-I had fun talking to Tracy during psych lecture.
-My time at the math lab was well-spent and I finished my calc homework.
-Tina and I worked on the linguistics homework and finished it.

So the math lab... I was there for about 3 hours today. The first time I was there, a GSI named Oscar helped me. He was really nice, especially considering that I was extremely dense and it took like 5 explanations before I finally got it. I mean, seriously, we spent the entire hour going over one homework problem. At one point he asked if I was doing engineering and I said, "No... I'm actually a German major." He kind of laughed at that and then said, "Well, at least you're learning more math." When I left, he asked how long I had been taking German and so I told him. He then said that he thought German would be more difficult than calc and then it was my turn to laugh. When I came back to the math lab in the evening, a male asian student helped me. For some reason I really got a grip on the things when he explained them and so I was able to leave feeling content. Before I left, there was a guy from Harlem across the table from me who was fun. He was in honors calc 1, which I took last year, so we talked about that a little. He said something about being excited for honors calc 3 and I laughed at that. He also asked what my major was and was also surprised when I said German. In conclusion, I had some good times at the math lab tonight.

To the tune that one song in The Wizard of Oz:
"I'm off to the Math Lab, the wonderful Math Lab of Michigan, because because because because I'm reeeeally stupid." I sang that before my second journey to the math lab. :)

It's actually official!!!

It's been getting harder and harder to read my own handwriting. For instance, yesterday I was reading a list that I had made and there was one thing that looked like "control schin", but obviously that didn't make any sense. So I had to sit there and think, "What else could these words be?" Finally I saw that "control" might also be "contact" and from there I realized that "schin" was "solution". Thus, "control schin" was Sarah language for "contact solution".

I came back to Ann Arbor last night! I wasn't really looking forward to the drive, but I was looking forward to being back. I missed my classes and even my schedule, plus I was sick of living with my parents. I don't know how I made it all the way through the summer at home, and that's why I'm looking into other options for next summer.

So it really is official! I wasn't sure of it would actually happen today, but it definitely did! AHH! I'm excited. ...I declared my major today!!! WOOHOO! It's German, by the way.



Yes, that is me with my "Concentration Declaration Form"... and the background is my desk area. I know, you're excited too.

Campus band was better than last week, but I just don't know. There are so many flutes... I just don't know.

An E-Mail Addiction

Yesterday was a fun day. Ross and I hung out and watched Michigan beat Penn State. It's sad that I was unable to be at the game. After the game we went to Ben's for a bonfire. That was fun... it always is. Andrew and DJ showed up and I must say that I had quite a good time talking to Andrew... and teasing him about MSU's loss to OSU. Today Ryan, Alecia, Joel, and I went to Hsing's Garden after church. Jack the waiter was as odd and fun as ever. Then Ryan and I watched Spider-Man 2. Hmm... I thought I had more to say than that.

At the chinese restaurant when we were looking at our Zodiac things, I said, "I'm a tiger" and Ryan said "I'm a snake". I thought that didn't sound right and so I looked at the menu and it didn't list his birth year, and so I said, "No you're not". Then he said, "Yeah I am, it says '1989' right there," to which I replied, "You weren't born in 1989". Ryan got an embarrassed look on his face and said, "....oh, yeah."

I'm so tired and my head hurts a little. I'm always tired.

I had a dream about George W. Bush on Friday night and a dream that I was being kidnapped and taken to Brazil last night.

As I was reading through what I have so far of my German paper, I came to a sentence in English and I literally had difficulty reading it. Like, it was really hard to switch back into English and even when I did, I was reading it with some kind of accent, like it was German. It was weird.

I'm listening to the remix of "My Heart Will Go On" with the excerpts from the movie while I obsessively check my email.

Whatever It Takes

My barf reflex was realy strong this morning... but anyway...

Oh my goodness! There is so much to tell! ...But I don't know if I want to tell. Maybe there really isn't that much to tell. I'm just excited, but it's getting to the point where the excitedness turns into nervousness. First I'll tell you about my day yesterday.

I went to German at 10am and there was this German guy there named Kalli who was talking about studying abroad and the "info session" which was happening later that day, and then the rest of the class was typical. Then I went to the Union where I learned about going overseas for four weeks to volunteer this summer through a program called International Student Volunteers (ISV). That definitely peaked my interest. Then I ate lunch with Gideon, Jonathan, and Dan. After lunch I went to Psych where we watched a movie and then got out an hour early. I then went to the math lab and got something about my homework clarified. Then I had an hour to kill before 4pm and so I went to the Fishbowl and looked up stuff about ISV and checked my email incessantly for an hour. When 3:50 rolled around, I headed up to the 3rd floor (or second... it's weird) of Mason Hall where I randomly ran into Steve Dittenber and we talked for a while. And then I went to the meeting about study abroad in Germany, which really definitely peaked my interest. Afterwards, and after speaking to Kalli for a moment, I went out to the Diag and called Ross to tell him about all the news (which most of you do not know yet). So what's the news, you ask?

Well, I am currently considering doing a study abroad in Germany within the next two years. The funny thing is, I really don't know why I even ended up deciding to go to that meeting... I never before had seriously thought about studying abroad, especially for a whole year or even a semester. I think it all began when Steph tricked me into going to the OIP fair when she said there would be free post-its (I guess I wasn't really tricked because there were free post-its) and it escalated from there. But it's all good. Also, I have decided on a major... and of course it is German. Don't even think about asking me what I'm going to do with a German major because frankly I don't care and I'm not thinking that far ahead. Plus, I might do a double major anyway or a major and a minor or something.

Today was a good day. I had a good time with Alecia at the football game and I was harassed for not selling my Penn State tickets to relatives. I got to hang out with Ross this afternoon and that was also fun. Then Alecia and I watched Notting Hill after the game. That's pretty much all except for the fact that my calc professor assigned homework over fall break. I was (and still am) upset about that. I actually have a lot to do over fall break: linguistics homework, German paper, read a German book (Olli Aus Ossiland), calc homework, and a reading for psych. Arg! It's supposed to be a break! Gar! I guess it's not a ton, but it's still quite a bit.

The Joys of Indifference

Ha ha ha... another day, another post.

The animals are quite tame here. We all know about the crazy squirrels, but today I saw something that isn't quite so common. I was walking back to South Quad from the Frieze Building when I noticed these three little birds pecking at the ground to the right of the sidewalk ahead of me, seemingly undisturbed by the random people walking past. Before I got there, one of the birds flew away, but the other two were still there when I reached that point and they weren't phased in the least by me walking by. That has happened at least once before to me with birds, but I think it was last semester or last year here at UM.

I did another psych thing today and it was crazy. It was way weirder than the other ones I've had to do. I can't go into detail about this one though because I was instructed not to. However, I will say this: it involved reading things, answering questions, and strange hand movements. Odd...

So calc is fun. I enjoy it even though it is difficult sometimes (quite often, actually). I went to office hours again today (it seems to be becoming a weekly thing) and they were helpful. I think Chris might now be aware of my algebraeic and trigonometric deficiencies. Oh well, the truth (however pathetic it may be) can not be hidden.

Right now it is exactly in the middle between the day I graduated from high school and my 21st birthday (16 months, 1 week).

I saw a red limosine today.

The fuzzy pink bunnies are in my closet.

I definitely failed my calc exam... 64/100. But actually that was above average so it's all good. My "shifted" score was an 80, but he hasn't figured out what letter grade corresponds to what number yet. I got all of the true/false that I answered correct and I got all of the match the graph to the function correct. Then I got 11/25 on one problem and 13/25 on another. Ehhh, it's all good... and my calc professor definitely stayed up until 2:30a.m. grading those exams. My psych exam didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but I'll just have to do better on the next exam.

I did another psych research thing today. It was dumb and it was similar to one I had done before. First I had to pick out all of the pronouns and then they flashed different shades of circles at me and I had to rate how "pretty" they were. It was dumb.

My calc professor is a nut... in a good way. I really like him but I don't think I'm overly fond of his teaching method. I was thinking either today or yesterday that I really like my classes this semester. Calc is entertaining; psych is entertaining and interesting; linguistics is interesting; German is pretty fun and interesting; campus band is fun and cool. In psych today, professor Schreier and the GSIs were giving out candy but only to sellect people. After a while I figured out that they were giving it out to people who were doing a certain thing and a little while later I figured out what the thing was and got a red Starburst for it. Things like that are one of the reasons that psych is fun. We watch movie clips a lot and that makes the class more interesting too.

So... that's all pretty much. My life isn't overly interesting (or at all). I'm listening to "Be Prepared" from the Lion King. It's nice. The title is complements of my RA. It's 12:02a.m. and so I'm going to bed. Sleepy...

Your mother is a partial derivative.

So what's up with all these natural disastors? In one year, there has been an earthquake followed by a tsunami in Asia, a disasterous hurricane along with other strong hurricanes in the southeastern US, horrible flooding in the east and northeast US, a hurricane followed by mudslides in Guatemala, and an earthquake in south Asia which had a magnitude of 7.6. Is this more than usual? Maybe not, but it feels like it.

In other news, Germany's new chancellor is Angela Merkel. She's the first woman chancellor of Germany ever. The old chancellor was Gerhard Schroeder from the SPD. Germany is one of my favorite countries. Other favorite countries include England, Ireland, New Zealand, Russia, Australia, the US (duh), Switzerland, and Austria. I like Belarus, Greece, Canada, and the whole continent of Africa too. Italy and France are ok, but not one of my favorites. And by "favorite" I mean countries which I am interested in, like for whatever reason, and would like to spend some time in.

So I participated in another psych research thing today. It was really similar to my last one. In one part of this one, I had to answer "trivia questions" which were something along the lines of "which country is known for chocolate, cuckoo clocks, etc", "how many animals of each kind were taken into the ark?", and "what animal was Johna swallowed by?", and if the question was unanswerable I was supposed to put "can't say". I answered those questions with "Switzerland, two, and whale" respectively. Then I turned the page and the question was "Without looking back, who did we say took animals into the ark in the previous question?" I put Noah, but then stopped and thought and couldn't remember if they had actually said Noah or not. So when I gave the papers back to her, I looked to see who it was, and they had put Moses. Crap... guess I got that one wrong... not that it matters. (I was actually laughing about it half the way back to SQ). Then I got lost in East Hall and ended up coming out on the Church St side of the building, which wasn't a tradgedy but it was still dumb that I got lost in EH.

My calc exam was today. Yeah... I didn't even get to finish it. It was so hard... forget multivariable calculus, I couldn't even simplify the crap under the square root! It was way harder than the Harvard exams. Oh well. Maybe there will be a nice curve. I'm actually not worried; I have a strange peace of mind.

Besides that, I have no news. Maybe I'll make some popcorn...

This is the good life...?

Well, the game wasn't pleasant... again. I took a bunch of pictures though and a couple little movies. One thing that I liked about the game was that when Rivas was kicking one of the field goals, the announcer mistakenly said "come on!" over the loudspeaker thing. Other than that and the return that turned into a touchdown, the game wasn't great. The band wasn't even especially interesting this time. The alumni band played with them, and so not much happened. The drum major and ex-drum majors were fun though. One more fun thing was that South Quad was on the screen in the stadium during the game (because they did a shot of the north/northeast end of the stadium).


There is a time and a place for country music. It's still not my thing, but it can be ok.

My calc professor told us to go to the Harvard website and look at the old multivariable calculus exams from there because our exam would be similar. Hmm... I'm not sure how I feel about that. So anyway, must study, exam Monday, going to die gruesomely.

Death by Multivariable Calculus, and Texas Two-Steppin'

My new experience for this week was eating is West Quad. It wasn't very good. South Quad definitely has the best food.

I took my psych exam yesterday. It was ok but it could've been better. I knew most of it but some things I had to guess or bs my way through.

Speaking of psych, I was a subject in a research thing this afternoon. All I had to do was read a poem and answer some questions. Fun stuff. I actually was done by at the time I was supposed to have started it (because I got there early).

I was eating dinner by myself, deep in thought, when Shalako joined me and brought me back to reality. Shalako and Jenny have really been putting things into perspective for me lately. I mean, I think I've got it bad with all this homework and stuff to do and stuff I don't understand and exams, and then there's Shalako with more things taking up his time than I can imagine and Jenny with those hard classes. I have calc. Ooo, big deal. One hard class. One stressful exam. And if I would just give it the time it deserves instead of being lazy, it would be much easier. But no. I just can't manage to do that.

There are other things though that are stressing me out. I wanted to be a math minor, but I can't seem to justify it anymore. At times I suck it up and tell myself that I'm just going to do it and like it, but other times I realize that it simply is not worth it. The classes I wanted to take to get my math minor have math 217 (linear algebra) as a pre-req, but I wasn't planning to take that class. And it's more complicated than just deciding that I'm going to take the class, there's more to it than that. Also, all I wanted was to get A's this semester, but calc is not looking like it will be anywhere near an A. I've gotten around the average on the homework and this exam probably will not be good. Then there's psych which is supposed to be easy, but my first paper wasn't an A (close, but not) and I definitely had to pull some stuff out of my butt for the exam. Plus, I was thinking about doing some study abroad stuff during the summer of '07, but the only German summer one is open only for people who would be taking 5th, 6th, or 7th semester German and by then I'd be past that.

So, in conlusion, I'm upset because my plans are going awry and my goals are not being met. I didn't really have any goals last year or really even much in high school, and when there was something I really wanted to get or accomplish, it hardly ever happened. Now the process is repeating itself. I did make goals this semester and I did make plans for my future recently (which everyone seems to think I need to be doing). The only thing that comes out of goals and plans for me is falling short and failure.

Ok, now for some non-depressing news. I definitely went to a barn dance tonight. It was incredibly fun! There were square dances and line dances and another dance thing and, at the end, there was the Texas two-step. I had various dance partners throughout the night, and the last guy I danced with was from from Perth, Australia. The whole night was so fun! It was better than last year because last year I hardly even got to dance with a male, but this time I danced with guys all but once. There was a bonfire too, but I didn't hang around there much. My night ended when I was driven back to my dorm by two random guys I had never met before. It was a great night! Ahh, good times. I love Cru... the people are great.

Gotta rest up for the game tomorrow!

Non Ritardando!

I was typing up vocab for psych last night and today because I was (and still am) trying to learn them, and after typing one I realized that I hadn't been paying attention and thus had no idea what I had just typed. It turned out that the term I was on was this: Subliminal perception – the registration of sensory input without conscious awareness.

Today was a fairly good day. I have so much to tell but so little time. Today was crazy. My psych exam is tomorrow and my calc exam is Monday. Plus, I have a German quiz tomorrow.

So I went to class today... German, calc, and linguistics lecture. German was typical. I had to keep repeating "Familie" though because apparently I wasn't pronouncing it correctly. Then there was calc. He was passing out the graded homework and I was half paying attention when I heard "Sarah's not here yet". I looked up to see him laying a homework onto the table and the continue distributing the homework. I was confused because 1) obviously I was there, 2) I didn't hear him call out my name to give me back the homework, and 3) how did he know who I was anyway. I examined the paper on the table from my seat in the first row and concluded that it looked like mine. A couple minutes later he returned to the front of the room, looked at me, gave me a confused look, and said "Are you Sarah?" I said yes and he gave me my homework and said something along the lines of "you must've slipped in"... yeah, I was definitely there the whole time since before he came to class and in the front row too. Anyway... linguistics was typical. I think I did fairly bad on the quiz, but whatever. The professor was being cute today... he just did some cute things. Did I mention that I think he's hot? Ok, so he's not that great... it's just a metter of opinion. His accent is great though.

I studied for psych at lunch until Alison and Erin joined me. Then I went to my German professor's office hours because we were forced to make an appointment to meet with her. That went really well. I had to speak in German for the first part, but it went well. She mentioned that she has noticed that I am the type of person who will only speak corectly instead of talking and talking and making a bunch of mistakes. She also said that I seem shy. I guess I kind of am, but it's more of reservation and indifference than shyness. Then I went to my calc professor's office hours and that also went fairly well. He went over some of the past stuff, such as reparametization and osculation and normal planes, and that was good because I was confused. Then he helped with some of the "weekly homework", except he kept getting confused and would stare at the chalkboard for minutes at a time. At the end he said, "I've been puzzled twice today. That's not good." One of the things he was puzzled about was a part of the homework. Yes, he could not do part of the homework he assigned for us to do. How encouraging.

I just had a flashback to when we were at a concert (I think) somewhere with the youth group and we were eating lunch in the van. I think it was the time when we lost Dustin. I don't know why I thought of it. I was listening to "Believe" by the Newsboys and the image just popped into my head.

I've been hearing a ton of sirens this semester. I think they were drowned out last year because I was lower to the ground. Now that I'm 5 stories up, I hear these things better. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Campus Band was ok tonight. The conductor said our sound has been getting better with each rehearsal. I don't know though. I hope we'll be ready by the concert. He's a character, he really is. He's just nuts sometimes. There was this one thing about pirates... hard to explain. You'd have to be there. At least he keeps us entertained for the 2 horus we're smushed in a small hot room. We did more singing today and I liked that.

I'm still sick and it is NOT pleasant.

Blah Blah Blah... BLAH

Naps are nice. I took a 40 minute nap yesterday afternoon. Ahh, yes. It would've been nice to sleep longer, but I had to be outside South Quad at 3:45 so some random guy named Tim could pick me up and take me somewhere. Then I was adopted by some people with three kids: Brittany, Brianna, and Bridget.

The talk of the town yesterday was the football game against MSU on Saturday, including especially Henne's "fumble" and the missed fieldgoals.

Last week wasn't a very good one. Sigh. It was a combination of a lot of things. It's over now though. Maybe this week will be better. Maybe. Hopefully.

Sometimes I forget that people actually do read what I write on here as I am typing this up, and so sometimes I end up writing like I would write in my own personal journal. I don't really write in my journal much now that I have a blog. My journal is now for those few noteworthy things that I do not want others to know about or that I know others would not understand... and for ranting. I rant in my journal a lot. It's my way to let off some steam and prevent the horrific explosino of my head.

I think I am becoming sick. I've been very tired lately and my nose is stuffy and my throat is kind of painful at times. I really don't want to be sick. It might not be actual sickness... it might be just a combination of tiredness and allergies.

Today is the anniversary of the reunification of Germany. Der "Tag der Deutschen Einheit". Maybe I'll join the UM German club.

All is as it should be.

Some things I forgot to mention yesterday:

As I was walking back from Cru with Jenn and Jenny, we passed my Great Books GSI from last year and (I think) Hartmut walking towards the MLB. It was kind of random.

I definitely stayed up until 2:30 watching poker last night. Why? I really can't say. It was interesting. I guess at about 1:30am when I returned to the game, I relaized that I had put too much into this game to not stick it out and see who wins. John won, by the way... he beat Jeremy.

So today was intense. I went to a "breakfast" tailgate party at a house where a bunch of Cru guys live. They projected the game onto the wall for the 30 or more people there and it was (for lack of a better word) intense. By the end of the game, my heart rate was elevated and my face was hot and I was trembling... at times it was hard to breathe. It was pure elation when Michigan won in overtime. I jumped up and my legs were shaking and there were shouts and cheers and high-fives and hugs everywhere. I was physically weak and I'm still recovering. Wow, it was incredible. On a side note, the food was really good, the sausage especially. Who knew guys could cook?

Ross got homecoming king! I'm so proud of my little wossy! ;) I wish I could've been there but it just wasn't feasible.

We got pizza from Papa John's tonight. Mmmm, the pizza-ie goodness.

I don't know if I wrote about participating in a psych research thing on Thursday or not. Well, I did. It wasn't anything special really. I'm signed up for 1.5 more hours and I still need 2 more after that.

There is much to do, but sadly none of it is getting done tonight. Goodnight.