Culture Shock

        So today, my friend had to drop something off at Cedarville University, and I was with her so I went along. This was a shocking experience. There was an entire office for counseling (a service etbu doesn't offer) and there were real campus security cars and computer portals that really worked. I'm so used to etbu now, that I hadn't even thought about other ways a campus could look--let alone a college with, shall we say, a bit of a bigger budget. I felt really dumb walking along like Look guys! This looks like a college where the ceilings wouldn't ever break when you were trying to clean them!!

        Anyway, now I'm consoling myself that what any other college looks like does not change what my college looks like. I don't have to go to the best of the best. I can go to a good place and if somebody else builds this ridiculously fancy place, I don't have to think that that makes etbu any worse just because it looks bad in comparison. Also, services and maintenance aren't everything. Where else can you go and get free May term? Or where can you go and get Blanca (sometimes) in the Spanish department? Or where do faculty members and friends hold international parties in their houses on Friday nights for anyone who wants to go, or where do vice presidents let you call them by their first names? I can't change my situation, so I'm not going to look and shiny fancy buildings and offices and state of the art everything and feel like I have to have that. Even when it's tempting to gripe, I really want to focus on the positive.

I feel horrible for my lack of blogging lately. However, there's one major problem: all the stuff going on in my life right now is un-bloggable. I'm sure that will get better eventually, but my blog's gonna look depressing in the meantime. If I think of anything to share with you guys, I shall post it, but until then I'll leave you with this happy list of stuff I plan to do.

• Register to vote (anybody know where to do this?)
• Get haircut (...or this? I wanna donate.)
• Pay ETBU
• Switch banks
• Write letters to my friends
• Finish the book I'm reading
• Get Mom to buy me some more clothes, since she says mine are getting worn out. (I usually do not like clothes shopping because there are so many other things that it's more fun to buy, such as coffee and play-dough, but I figure if she's buying then it'll be fun. )
• ...and yeah. I've actually been pretty bored lately, so if anybody needs a baby-sitter, I'll probably be available.

EDIT: If you're ever bored, try acting out "Don't let the Rain Come Down" with Bob. Is fun. Also do a Kroger run for your sister.

So, here I am, sitting on my bed next to the fuzzy little cat, and I have decided to come on here and blog. Nothing super duper exciting has happened in the last few weeks of my life, but random going out to see friends has been making me happy. I was so bored for a while there that I thought I was seriously gonna die, but then two very special things happened:

1. My friends invited me to do fun stuff with them
2. The cable got fixed

I am now okay, though I still have like massive amounts of free time on my hands, so if anybody wants a favor, yeah, here I am.

In other news, my friends claim that they can get on facebook and burn prodigious amounts of time there. When I get on, I usually have like one notification that somebody's about to have a birthday and I should use their app to send them a card or something. I'm really not sure what I'm missing. As opposed to xanga, facebook runs mainly on status updates and wall posts, both are restricted to very short messages. I basically think it's a dumb website, but I kinda hafta go there, or I will be a social outcast. Playing Oregon Trail over there can be kinda fun, though. One person just got a notification that I left a message on her tombstone. Given that she has probably never played Oregon Trail, she's probably gonna be weirded out when she gets that. Oh, well. I left her a rose, so all should be well.

Other than that, my sister cooked me some hot dogs, so I'm gonna go partake.

So, for the first time in our history, we are about to take both cats and the dog to the vet at the same time. This should be cool, because they all hate the vet with such passion that they might, just might be able to forget their hostilities toward each other.

Oh my goodness...

...anybody else grow up on this stuff???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prc57Xex7Oo