Pseudo Spring

"Weird" doesn't even begin to describe the weather here in Illinois. "Highly-irregular, abnormal, and subject to change frequently" is closer to the truth. It is 68 degrees outside right now!!!!!!! It is seriously 68 degrees outside. The sun is shining, a cool breeze is blowing, and it is the perfect spring day. HOWEVER, on Tuesday--the day after tomorrow--we are supposed to have a high of 30 degrees, low of 19 degrees, and a snow storm. Craziness. The prospective HA students who are coming into town today are going to get a false sense of what winter weather is like in Charleston. I think that the impression Mom and I got when we came to visit last February was more accurate. Oh well--we'll enjoy the warm weather here while it lasts. It's supposed to be pretty nice tomorrow too, which will be good because I have to give a bunch of campus tours to the prospective students, or the "children," as I call them. Some of the children are coming by our apartment today to check-out Campus Pointe, and then they are all going out to dinner. I'm opting for the dinner-less option, so I'll just head straight over to the Dudley House to help Dr. Small set up chairs and things before our "Interview Weekend Commencement Program" this evening.

Today I have suffered a severe bout of tiredness and overwhelmity (that's a new word I made up)--due, I believe, to yesterday's escapades. I didn't have a chance last night to go into great detail about the trip to Tuscola, but let's just say that venturing though the thorn forest and over the drainage ditch was slightly hazardous to my health. My left knee has numerous cuts and bruises on it, and I think I still have a few little thorns in my legs. Then, last night's birthday party was crazy--as I knew it would be. I had big plans of going into my room, closing my door, and going to bed early, but that is easier said than done with an apartment full of drunk girls :-) Not everyone got really drunk, but Aly was wasted. They were all talking nonsense, but luckily they decided to go home rather than stay overnight. It took until 1:45 a.m., however, to get them out the door.

Last night I learned far more about all of my classmates than I ever wanted to know. Alisha was rambling all evening--but she was drunk on Welch's sparkling grape juice instead of alcohol. She seriously gave us too much information about herself--except that she is still holding fast to her secret tie to the Mormons. :-) However, now almost everybody knows that she used to be a Mormon because I had to explain to them today why Alisha was so upset when Kristen left a copy of the Book of Mormon in our graduate lab at school. I had given Kristen a copy of the Book of Mormon, but then the missionaries left her a copy along with "The Restoration" DVD, and so after watching the DVD, she brought it and her extra copy of the Book of Mormon to the lab in case somebody else wanted to borrow them. Catherine took the DVD home to watch, but the Book of Mormon was still in the lab, and I guess that Alisha kind of freaked out about it yesterday. I was not there when this happened, but I heard that she was saying how it is inappropriate to have religious material at school. Then, rather than doing it herself, she insisted that Laurie put it in one of the cabinets so that the visiting students wouldn't see it today. Aly and I had to go over to school this afternoon to work on some things, and Catherine and Laurie were wondering what the deal was with Alisha, so I just explained it to them. There's always something to be dramatic about around here! :-) I think I know why I've been feeling so drained of energy lately--I need to have better nutrition. I didn't think it was possible to forget about eating, but lately I've been finding myself forgetting to eat during the day, and that is not good. I will do better--and will then probably feel better!