Well, today is Halloween! I am exhausted. I have had three tests the last three days and did pretty bad (at least I think I did) on all of them. I talked to my sister for two hours last night instead of studying, then fell asleep about three times this morning while I was trying to study. It was a good conversation with her though. She's so silly. She seems to be on a Red Hot Chili Peppers thing, cause she kept telling me how *bleepin* awesome their new cd is. I was like,"Dani! Quit cussing at me!" and she's like,"Oh yeah! Sorry...." She said something very hilarious and I completely forgot what it was. I wanted to quote it here but I cannot think of it. Oh well. I'm pretty sure I will be getting that RHCP cd for my birthday though.

My old roommate and one of my best friends, Jill, took me out to dinner for my birthday gift last night! It was so awesome! I saw her and my other old roommate, Elizabeth, in the lab, sitting right next to each other, and walked up to them and said,"AWWWW, well, look at that--two of my favorite people sitting right next to each other and they didn't even know it!" E-beth had to go but I sat next to Jill and printed off a ton of tabs and talked, and then she suggested that we go out to eat. Yay! Jill is a very busy woman and rarely has time to do anything spontaneous so that in itself was a blessing. We went to Chili's and blabbed and blabbed (you can guess who did MOST of the blabbing) and caught up on each other's lives and current events and such. I need to see her more this month since she is doing her student teaching all next semester, back home in St. Louis.

My pal Kristin has been blessing me too. She recently hemmed up a new pair of pants of mine and sewed up another shirt and pair of jeans, and she bought me some of my favorite perfume in the whole world when she went shopping with her friend Grace. AWWWWW! She makes me so happy. I feel very loved.

Oh, duh!!! I went to the Waterdeep concert on Tuesday night and it was SO BEAUTIFUL. I loved it. I bought the new Waterdeep cd and have been listening to it the past couple of days. One of the best elements of their concerts is when Don starts talking about something he has been thinking about lately, and he goes on and on and into 18 different tangents and then finally comes back to his original point but then starts off again, and his wife Lori has to be like,"Hey!" It's great. They did several of their 10+ minute jams and got a little funky. I think my new favorite song of theirs is "We're All Dying, Tracy James." Next up in line would have to be the next song, "On Our Way to Crazy."

Keep prayin for me to get that new job!!! I'm so sick of the Bee.

".....and the guys' hall smells like......some combination of toothpaste and......butt."--Don Chaffer, describing the weird dorm smells that linger forever

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"...........Grooooooooooooooooooooooooove....."-old guy that got thrown out the window ( thought it sounded kind of like,"boooo-oooooh," you know, like, a ghost?)

Oh! Hello! I think I must have an "open" look, because today is the second time this year that some random stranger has come up to me while I was eating my Sunday breakfast, asked if I wanted some company, and, regardless of my answer, sat down. My answer today was,"Uh, ummm...well........" The person's name today was Mike, and he told me about how he doesn't want to work and that although he doesn't like getting up so early for breakfast, he sure is glad he does cause he gets some sweet stuff (waffles.) Hmmm.....okay. It was about 12:45 at that time-- or so I thought. Then I realized-"Oh, hey! Daylight savings time!" and was glad. I love that extra hour. It really does help. Anyways, I was pretty much done eating so I sat with him for about two minutes. Do I have a sign on my head that says,"I'm lonely, that's why I'm eating by myself-- please sit with me!!" Didn't think so. Yeah, earlier this year some girl did the same thing. Oh well. I talked to them both. Nothing wrong with being severely outgoing.

So, last Wednesday, I went mountain biking at Little Sac with my bud Curtis. And let me tell you he was the coolest, cutest, best rider I've ever seen (hee hee there ya are Curtis.) Well, he told me to say that. No, no, don't get me wrong, he was very good, and a great biking companion. We rode for like an hour and a half. I had so much fun!!! I didn't fall. That itself was amazing, I haven't been riding for like, two years. I ALMOST fell a few times though. My thighs were burning the entire time and Curtis barely lost his breath. Hmmmm.....someone's out of shape. And it ain't the red head either.

I'm looking for a ride to the last Blindside concert close to us, in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday. It's my last chance!!! :( But, I do get to see Waterdeep on Tuesday night, which will be absolutely exquisite I am sure. I can't wait. They have two new cds out. I might pick up a bussing shift tomorrow night just so I can have some cash to buy those and any other cds of theirs I don't have yet.

I am still trying for that job at Borders. I am going to go in there tomorrow and try to talk to someone. I seriously want to work there. I bought the last two books in C.S. Lewis' Science Fiction trilogy, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. I have decided to take it easy this time and take a little longer than a day and a half to read 'em. I flew through Out of the Silent Planet a bit too fast, I think.

Oh, man! Mandy, the beautimous woman who reccommended those books to me--well, I get to visit her in the windy city the weekend after my birthday!!! I am so excited! I am sure it will be absolutely frigid. I can't wait to see her and hang out and talk and blah blah blah it will be so awesome. I miss that girl so much!

I worked out for the first time in months last week, twice!!! I only lifted though. Doing cardio seems to be another problem. My hamstrings are so sore this weekend I can't walk normally. I didn't think I lifted too much!!! I just did one set. My biceps have a nice soreness to them. My triceps don't. I think I am gonna do a different exercise for them.

There are like, 8 million new cds I want to get. Including the following, if *ahem* anyone would like to know (hint hint). Coldplay's new one, Radiohead Amnesiac, Travis The Invisible Band, U2's new one, Dave Matthew's new one, Project 86 Truthless Heroes (mainly cause I have had so many guy friends tell me "You GOTTA hear it!!!"), Denison Marrs' new one (Mandy loves them!), Sarah Groves new one; yeah, basically tons of new ones. And some other old ones. Secular, Christian. I have a huge list.

Okay, I am gonna sign off for now. Oh, by the way-Mandy, the answer to your question in your last entry is this: That's cause Jimmy Eat World ROCKS!!! Okay. That is now truly all.

"Mayham! What a COOL last name!!!"--Heather, last night when looking at the name list at work

"Oh, that's already back!"--Phil, Thursday, trying to tell me and Kristin that the 80's thing where you put part of your tee shirt in a little claspy thingy is in now. No, Phil. No.

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"I know!!! I know!! Yzma! Yzma's in your chair!!!"--Kronk