Weird, Wet Weather

No tornadoes came through here last night, but 'twas not the case in other parts of the state. There were a number of reported funnel clouds throughout central Illinois--the closest one to C-town was probably the one that was spotted in the city of Auburn which is about 80 miles west of us. I was reading today that they haven't had tornadoes in Illinois in January since 1950! Though there were no tornadoes in C-town, there certainly was a lot of rain. Alyson and I went to campus this morning to work out at the gym, and when we came outside after, we got SOAKED. I was wearing my rain jacket, but I was still sopping wet. We had fun at the gym today--Angie and Catherine were there too! We've all decided to start out the semester well, but we'll see how long that lasts :-) I went and picked up my text books today too. There are not as many as there were last semester, but there's still a pretty hefty stack of them. I have a number of riveting titles such as "The New Museum Registration Methods." That one will surely be a page-turner. I also went and visited Dr. Hardeman and Dr. Reid to tell them my big news and they are both very excited about "The Gregster," as Dr. Hardeman calls him :-)

Now I am back here at the apartment trying to get some finances, unpacking, and other miscellaneous things done that I didn't have time to do before school started yesterday. Dan has been bugging me about getting our museum exhibit website up and going--in fact he wanted to work on it today. BUT, the Tarble Arts Center lady said she doesn't want the website to go up until April, and we don't even have our Museum Exhibits class until February 12--so why would we work on the website now? We don't even know what to put on it yet. Dan is crazy. I think he is trying to punish me for not being in love with him. Oh well, I told him I'm too busy today. He seems obsessed with having all of his work done months in advance.

I haven't played basketball for a while, but for some reason I've really been wanting to lately. So today at the gym, after the elliptical machine and lifting weights, I checked out a basketball and shot some hoops. It was so much fun! I think that is a good way to burn off nervous energy--which will certainly accumulate in my system this semester. I hope Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire today.

Tonight we're having our weekly meeting and going out to eat in celebration of my half birthday. I told them I thought it was silly to celebrate my half birthday, but they're always looking for an excuse to go out to eat or something like that. So, I need to go finish some things before the evening's festivities. I don't think I'm going to have many free evenings this semester. I talked with Angie on the phone yesterday and we discussed some of the things we're going to do when I go visit her next week. I am SO EXCITED for a trip to Pennsylvania (for Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend)! She told me that she's going to need to take me on a very detailed tour of the Gettysburg National Battlefield to practice for when she has to take a Bulgarian general on a tour there in February. She gets to do weird, cool stuff like that for her job. The problem is that said general doesn't speak a lick of English. I told her I'll try to learn some Bulgarian words to make her practice tour with me seem more authentic.