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I apologize for my long expanse of delay in between blogs. It has been a crazy week ending and weekend. Although Adam suggests I need not apologize because there’s no one even reading this. I think he’s just jealous because I’m cooler than him. I do believe that is the case.

So Thursday and Friday consisted of my last school days of cramming in work and assignments due before the week ended. I accomplished everything I needed so that was fulfilling. Friday we shouldn’t have had school (maybe a delay would have been appropriate) but they sent us to the slaughterhouse regardless. People with 8AMs were falling all over the place because of the rain and ice. I had a 10 that got cancelled one hour beforehand so I showed up unaware of the change. Then I had physics (I’m starting to like it…seriously, my prof is genius). Around noon the temperature started to peak above freezing so much of the ice disappeared quickly in the lite rain, that was nice. But it was just very relieving to get everything done by mid-afternoon and have the rest of the night to relax.

Saturday was the day. Such a great time. My weekend began with a trip to H-burg with Abigail to meet up with Adam and Courtney. Plus!! Bryan showed up as well! Awesome. Then we all went to the district. Potomac Mills was short-lived because we were slightly behind schedule. H&M produced nothing amazing for me, in fact I didn’t buy a single item at the mall. Money-saving is good. Then the Apple store. No luck finding an iPod mini there. Oh well. Perhaps next time. Dinner at Big Bowl. grrrrrrrrreaaat! Then onto the show!

Spiraling was opening along with Army Of Me. The former was great but the later got a bit annoying thanks to a rather arrogant frontman. But OK Go drowned out the incessant annoyances with their supreme stage presence.

OK Go was amazing. They are simply a great band and an apparently great group of people. Musically they were near-flawless for their style and performance-wise they were as exciting as possible. I’ll drop some photos at some point, but I’m not in a hurry So yeah, their show was phenominal. The dance at the end was above all levels of cool. It was good

After Adam graciously allowed us to stay at his place that night due to the lateness, we got up Sunday morning for a trip back to Blacksburg. Abigail and I showed Adam and Bryan around campus. A good West End meal was helpful, as well as some Bollo’s. Then we said our goodbyes and departed for another couple of months. This weekend was great.

Aaaaand…Adam and I won more songs from the iTMS. How cool is that?! Answer: IceCold.

Furthermore, I got word from the RDP that I get on-campus housing again next year. A good thing, because it would cost so much more to get off-campus…plus then there is transportation costs. Apparently, I was one of the few people on my hall to get it, so that makes me happy

And I must applaud Bryan for doing something I likely could not. Bryan is currently on a sugar-free diet (no sweets or vain extras of the sugar-persuasion) for a while. The entire weekend he didn’t have anything of that sort. I was impressed. Although I must apologize for corrupting him just a bit as we shared a mocha latté at Bollo’s. ::I’m sorry Bryan please forgive me:: But he deserved the luxury of sugar for one moment of this fantastic weekend

So now I have some reading to take care of and some resting up to get out of the way. A good week will thus begin.

These past few days have been chaotic and kah-razy. Let me begin.

Tuesday was the first true hectic day of my week. I did so much homework; physics, rhetoric comm, and physics lab. Ahh, I was so burnt out that night. Today was no different and I still have plenty to take care of. Greeat.

So I went to Owen’s tonight for a somewhat regular meal. I finally realized that Owen’s is coming to the point where they simply can’t give chicken and rice any more names. ‘Grilled chicken and rice,’ ‘St. Lucia’s chicken,’ and ‘grilled lemon chicken’ are just a few of the enticing titles that they have came up with. And tonight the guy who slapped together my meal was just a jerk and gave me gravy when I said not to, and it was just not good. Consequently, I made sure I grabbed an apple on the way out. Fruit always calms my nerves. It worked this time too.

And I went to McComas with Abigail tonight. I ran, she swam. The timing worked out well. Afterwards I went to Bollo’s for fun and Abigail got some Subway. It was very good. Very relaxing post the workout.

Thursday and Friday look to be very busy. Thus I will try and take care of as much as possible tonight. Arg. Plus there are a ton of people in my room right now watching Celebrity Mole so I can’t quite start any true work yet.

And Tuesday I got a haircut. Randomly. He cut it way short, but it looks good in a mini mohawk….sooo, that’s what I’ll have for a while

Anyways. Blah. I loves me some John Keats. Perhaps I’ll go Keats.

“I get a lot of weird looks for those, as I’m sure you can imagine, since this *is* Lynchburg, and usually the most extreme thing girls here wear is nail polish that doesn’t match their purse…” - Melanie, in an email to me regarding her new, and I must admit, *fab* boots

I agree with Jeremiah. People need to realize that they are mispronouncing a month too often. So yeah.

Today has been long-winded. My classes presented me with just an enormous amount of work to do. Most of it is due this week, so I’ll be killing myself tonight and tomorrow night to get it all taken care of. I’ll manage. With chocolate and coffee I mean…

So I took a solo walk around downtown B-burg today looking for a few things, a few infomatic things. On the way back I stopped by Bollo’s for a free raspberry mocha since I filled out my Bollo’s card. woot! So good. But before that this too proxemic guy approached me and wanted to know if I would help support the rugby team at Tech with some fundraiser thing that starts on Tuesday. I sounded interested and walked away as if I had plans to return the next day. I don’t have plans to return the next day. If I do happen to pass by, though, I’ll be wearing a flak jacket and carrying pepper spray to ward off that guy.. He got right up in my face, and I just wasn’t in the mood to be uncomfortable. Whatever.

I finally brought myself to buy a crossover cable. Only 10$ but I just couldn’t make myself accept my doom up to today. I also checked out Adobe Illustrator. I wants! The educational version is only 95$ from the bookstore…ooohhh…but I probably won’t ever get it. Sadly.

Anyways, so right now my brain is shot from a long physics lab and I just am trying to avoid the work looming around me…specifically to my left. Arg.

But this weekend will be great. Bryan is now coming as well! Aweeesssooome!

Oh yeah and the Super Bowl commercials yesterday were just not very impressive. The Pepsi ones were the best, and I looooved the Linux one with Muhammed Ali. My feelings about the iTunes ad are still uncollected although the announcement about the free songs tends to overwhelm any other theme behind the ad. Yeah, I guess.