Happy Reformation Day!

Oh sad day. The last Halloween at Grove City where there will be donuts and cider in the quad with people wishing each other Happy Reformation Day. Last Halloween at GCC where Ryan B. will dress up as Luther and post his 95 Theses on the large and formidable doors of HAL. Last Halloween for all this very small, Christian college tradition. Last Halloween for me to laugh at it all while experiencing it. Sometimes I can't believe the traditions we have here...

This also marks the beginning of a very busy but fun weekend! I have a Halloween party tonight, a teacher's portfolio workshop tomorrow morning, a badminton match and HSM3 tomorrow afternoon, and then As You Like It and the Goulish Gourd Festival (aka carving pumpkins) tomorrow evening. Well, actually, I guess basically tomorrow is busy. And this weekend is daylight savings time. I'm very ready to 'fall back'.

Midterm Mayhem

It's over! Finally over! I just got back from taking my last midterm of this year! Amazing to think of that; then I start thinking about student teaching and I get all excited and nervous at the same time. Kind of like getting really giddy and then smelling something really bad all at once.

I also got a notice for my polling station next Tuesday in the mail today. Since I'm registered for absentee voting and they already sent my ballot, why did I get this?

The weather is much warmer and less windy today - no snow. Tomorrow one of my classes is cancelled, so all I have is a 9am and then work in the afternoon. That gives me plenty of time to get my costume for the Halloween party figured out - the theme is supposed to be The Wizard of Oz, but I don't think I'm going to be able to dress up according to that.... Saturday, Amanda and I are going to see As You Like It - should be a superb evening of Shakespeare.

Let it snow!

Last night, I was so close to going to sleep and some guys walked by my room shouting (sort of singing) Good King Wenceslas. I had no idea why on earth they were thinking about Christmas music so early, unless of course, they were like me and are big fans of Christmas! Then I woke up this morning, looked out my little window, and saw this:

Snow! In October! Yay! It was so great walking to class and getting all that snow in my face. Well, not really. But it was exciting. I hadn't seen snow since last December when I left for France, so this was fun - the smell, the cold wind (didn't miss that so much), the soft sound of snow falling. Poetic.

Tomorrow is finally my last midterm. French Cinema. Not much studying will be happening tonight since our class was cancelled yesterday 10 mins after we were all there, so we decided to just stay and study instead. That ended up being around 25 mins of studying out of the hour and 15 mins class period. "They don't have Zambonis in France." I haven't laughed so hard in long while.

Road Sign Rage

In first place for this year's "Europe's Most Stupid Road Sign" is this lovely work of abstract art brought to you by the Italian government:

Runner up is this collection of signs in Austria:

And lastly: um, what?

Of Haircuts and Hurricanes

Today was another lazy day filled with lots of reading from the lovely, riveting (not so much) book, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. In light of such uplifting reading on society's failings, I got to talk to my dad and brother. Not so much about the book, but about haircuts. Apparently BJ's looks like my mom stuck a salad bowl on his head and cut the hair hanging out from under it. I told him that he should be flattered he has the same haircut the Beatles had but he scoffed at me. Over the phone, no less.

And, we got to talk about random hurricane-like winds at home. They had some of the windows open to equalize the pressure in the house; my dad assured me (despite my non-worry), that they had taken this precaution so the house would not explode. This is after he answered the phone, "Hurricane Central", and I was quite confused. Why on earth I would think the house would explode, I don't know. Especially at the end of October. Everyone knows houses only explode in the spring.

Also, I just had a late night visitor and Reba is engaged! Congratulations!