where i left off... last friday... it was the funeral service for my great aunt. i got to see my uncles, her sons, that i hadn't seen for a really long time. like my uncle jim, he's the stereotypical crazy uncle, but he lives in canada so i get to see him once every five years or so. after the service, there was a luncheon and my cousin finally got into town. he's the one that has been in iraq, and he came to ohio to see the family. it was the first time i had seen him, cause the family got together last sunday but obviously i couldn't be there. his daughter, emma, is now six freaking years old... the last time i saw her she was 18 months. it was kind of cute actually, mom and i went to my grandma's the next day cause that's where cevan and emma are staying. we went out to the cemetary to visit my grandfather, cause cevan wanted to. as soon as i got there, emma asked me to watch her ride a two-wheeled bike. from then on, she didn't leave my side the rest of the night.
when we went to the cemetary i had a little moment. i know emma is still little, and she doesn't really understand the wieght of a place like a cemetary. i told her not to step on the gravestones, and she was actually really careful watching where she stepped. we walked around the area where my grandfather is buried, and i helped her read the names of people. i thought it was really cool... i mean, how often are all those people thought about? but for a few seconds we thought about them and their life and family. we finally got to my family's area. i am kind of ticked off... apparently the cemetary staff BROKE my grandfather's headstone. when they buried my other great aunt earlier this summer, they use this pulley machine on wheels, like a mini crane, to lower the casket into the ground. well, some dumbass didn't watch where they were going and drove over the headstone... and BROKE IT. IT'S FREAKING GRANITE. wouldn't one think to check those kinds of things out first before doing something???? ugggggggggh. so later that day, most of the crew went to the high school football game. it was their first home game, so there were a lot of people there. it was actually a great game, we won 34 to 20, with three interceptions. after the game and the post-game band shakedown, we went to stephanie's house for a bonfire. hilarity ensued. we were all pretty hyper, and there are quite a few interesting pictures to prove it.
a few of us stayed the night after the fire... meranda, kelly, brittany, steph and i. five people in a tiny room... wow that was interesting. stephanie and i ended up sharing a twin bed, haha. we watched hunchback of notre dame and i am so TICKED cause i fell asleep when they were in the court of miracles. i absolutely love that movie. in fact, i'm listening to the soundtrack right now. great orchestration.
saturday was already discussed...
sunday i went to church, lunch, and then packed up my stuff. we headed back to campus around 3ish and got back around 6.
the past few days have been uneventful for classes... however, last night was extremely crazy. while in band, this giant thunderstorm rumbled through the area. when we got out of band, it was raining crazy hard. a few of us living in myers called escort, and when we tried to run into the street we had to jump over 7 inches of a freaking river. i think that's what you'd call a flash flood. i went to hollenbeck because we were going to have a fishing club meeting, and i met savannah in the math workshop. while i was there, the power went out. yeah. people were in there doing physics by cell phone light XD talk about dedication! there were only the emergency light strips on in the buildings, so i sat in the doorway to get light from the hall in order to do my homework. after about an hour, the power came back on. oh, and i didn't know this at the time, but myers hall was hit by lightning last night!! how cool!!!! but the rest of the night was calm, i finally got my homework done at like 1am, lol.
today was pretty tame... classes were shortened because of opening convocation, so 45 minutes instead of an hour. lauren and i got chinese instead of going to convo, LOL! i had theory this morning, and a very interesting fact happened while we were in there: 09-09-09-09-09-09. the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009 at 9:09am and 9 seconds. how many times would that ever happen?!?! it was so funny because dr. b even set an alarm a few seconds before so he could count it down. when his alarm went off, he jumped up and told us to be quiet. i thought there was a bomb or something! but hey, it was pretty cool though. he was actually in a good mood today, not the tyrant like usual.
right now i'm just relaxing until i have to go back to krieg to work for an hour. glad i'm getting some money... and i'm happy i've gotten caught up on all my work. i just need to read a chapter or two for my child development class.
anyway, i think that's the end of my post for now. i gotta finish the rest of my hunchback soundtrack!
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