Happy Birthday!

Since my birthday fell within the bounds of “hell week” it was relatively low-key and unassuming. Everyone is presented with cake, though, on their birthday or on the nearest weekday. Angela has called me a snail, because I am always the last to finish eating. I’m used to being last, though. On the 29^th, Franco was sort of hovering waiting to take my plate away so they could bring in the cake. I was aware of this and still the following was allowed to occur.

When I was finally done, I still had a piece of bread sitting on the table about the size of two bites. Carla tried to toss it into the bowl that was moving away from me at that moment, but I screamed “NO!” at her and snatched it from her hand quite greedily. It was only two bites. I could finish it. I still had the last of the green beans in my mouth at this point. I looked around fiendishly and then partly just for laughs, I shoved the rest of the bread into my mouth. The lights immediately turned off and I began to crack up laughing because they were bringing in the lit cake.

The Centro sang “happy birthday” and I was falling apart the whole time, my mouth too full to speak, but too busy laughing to chew. I knew I was running out of time and would soon be expected to extinguish the candles. I waved them out with my hands, still laughing at the ridiculousness of the whole thing.

All in all, it made my day.

Halloween was fun. I didn’t have as much time to spend on my costume as some people who looked amazing, but I did put together a quick rendition of Iris, the rainbow goddess who does Juno’s bidding. The party on the fourth floor became a dance party and I went completely wild there, too, singing and dancing my heart out until I went downstairs and promptly fell asleep.

Left to right: Zombie, Iris, Diana, Love-a-lot bear, Minerva, a Spartan, a Gaul

Between that and the thirty-odd hours of field trip each week, I’ve worn myself out enough that I caught Emily G’s cold (Emily C got it too) so we’re all sicky-faced Emilys together today.

Otherwise the weather has been alternating between beautifully sunny and cool, and chilly-wet cloudy. We have no field trip today, which is a good thing, because I think it will help me to not fall behind so much because I go at a much slower pace with a cold.

Not to mention the fact that I have to sign up for classes for next semester. Which means I have to figure out what I’m doing after next semester since some of my classes depend on my plans.

I’ve been using my “spare” time to try to gather information and make those plans. I have been quite content knowing I had ‘options,’ but now I guess I have to have more than that. Had to happen sometime.