Well...la vie boheme

Alright, I'm not dead, just if you were wondering, though I doubt you were. The end of the semester, as always, is quite hectic. As for the title, today on the ABC Countdown is Rent Day (La Vie Boheme Day) here at Monmouth College. My roommate came up with an idea to countdown the end of the school year with days tying with the letter of the alphabet, which she came up with in high school. It's pretty cool so far. We've had Cool Handshake day, Flailing Arms day, Loser day, Overly Expressive day...just to name a few. So, in accordance with today being La Vie Boheme day, our group of friends at supper this evening are performing a large rendition of the song. For those of you who don't know, the song is from the show RENT. It's pretty good, up beat and fun to sing along with, but, being the very liberal show that it is there are some pretty crazy lyrics. All in all though, it will be fun. I'm pretty sure they're singing it when all the football players are at dinner, so it will be funny to see their reactions...punks. I have nothing against them, none whatsoever, but they sure do get away with a lot of stuff at this school. Oh well.
Good news though, April is almost over! I have six days of classes before finals start, so that's pretty exciting. However, I have entirely way too much to complete before the end of next week, as I imagine most of you do too. Well, best wishes on the end of the semester and finals and graduations and trips and everything! You're all in my thoughts and prayers.

xoxoxo

p.s. Already my roommate has listened to the song this morning about 10 times. I think I may go mad before the end of the day......ahhhhh!

dull. apologies.

I know it's getting to the end of the year, so we're both busy. However, it's kind of sad that we both really can be boring at the same time. : )

dust in the wind

This post is not going to be about the futility of life or Kansas. I'm not even going to mention the content of Ecclesiaties. So DO NOT BE ALARMED.

Earlier this afternoon I experienced my first spring dust storm (my first real dust storm of any kind, for that matter). Just another joy of living in the Big Country of West Texas. Dust in your hair, dust in your eyes. Dust on the stairs and dust in the sky! Dust in your nose and inside your mouth. Dust in all shoes all over the south. (No laughing. Dust makes you a little crazy)

I just thought someone might like to see the dust since it's a little different from anything we see in the north. It was mostly cleared up by 5:00. There's still some dust around, but there's not nearly as much as there was. I took pictures. : )





I took this picture around 5:10 or so. It's actually the after picture, but I put it first so you'd know kind of what it looks like normally. This is the Tower of Light (the big tower-looking thing in the middle) and the Sowell Rotunda of the Bible building (the white dome'ish' thing) as seen from the roof of my building. Ssshhhhhh...











This picture was taken around 2:15. It stayed like this for most of the remaining three hours of the storm. I'm not sure exactly when this all started, but it had be going on for awhile when I went to class at one thirty. You can barely see the Tower of Light in this picture. Pretty crazy.





Just thought I'd share that with y'all because I was excited. Sorry to talk about the weather. Congratulations on going to school where there are no dust storms...