Morgantown, How I Love Thee

Wow! I honestly don't think I can remember a time whenever my life has been more busy than it is right now. Class, homework, Target, homework, repeat! Sure, if I sit around and think about just how much I'm doing, and how much still needs to be done, it feels overwhelming and stressful, and I don't know how I'm ever going to get through it. But if I don't think about it and just go with the flow? Well, I just realize how much fun I'm also having on the side, how little I have time where I'm genuinely bored, and how quickly my semester in Northern Ireland is rolling towards me!

Last Sunday two of my friends and I went to St. Ann's, a Catholic church in Waynesburg like I wrote last week, to observe a different denomination for our Religion in America class. It really was a different experience - though I am not completely certain as to what everything that I witnessed was, it was a good to see something different all the same, and it felt good after the service was over that I had stepped out of my comfort zone a bit. Plus, I loved how much Latin was in the hymnals - small detail, I know, but foreign languages always captivate my interest, and that was no different.

In other exciting news for the week: we have had an interesting new addition to the cafeteria - garlic shrimp pizza. Now, don't shoot me down before I have a chance to explain...after all, shrimp scampi is perfectly acceptable, and that is basically what garlic shrimp is. Then, put on white pizza, which also is acceptable to have garlic - well, it's not quite so strange now, is it? Let's just say I hope we have it again, because I actually enjoyed it and it was nice to have something other than pepperoni or cheese every day!

Speaking of pizza - this week was my next to last week of training so I can begin to work in the Writing Center on campus soon. What does that have to do with pizza, one may ask? Well, we had a nice pizza party yesterday during our training session, which was certainly a good time - except for the fact that I was wearing white trousers, and of course, managed to get pizza sauce on them. Now, not to boast or anything, but I usually am pretty good about not getting food on my clothes - but of course, white trousers + pizza sauce = disaster, always. Yesterday was tragically no different.

So speaking of the white trousers (I just love these connections in my head), the question the reader may be asking now is, why wear white trousers? Well, that's also a quite simple explanation. Yesterday, 24 September 2009, was the one night, one showing all across America of the English dubbed version of Eureka seveN : Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers. Yes, its a very long title, especially for a couple of college girls who drove all the way to Morgantown, W. Va., to the only theater within an hour of WU to go see it only to not be able to find it on the movie listings there due to it being listed as 'E7GNSTYL.' It probably took us at least five minutes to figure it out, but yeah. We had been waiting for several weeks to rush out of my Geology lab in order to go have some fun off-campus, do a bit of shopping (mostly for our convention next weekend - I can't believe its next weekend, this year really is flying!) and go see an awesome Japanese movie.

Oh, right, the white trousers - well, the night before, on Wednesday when I got home from Target, I wasn't really in the mood to sleep, and for once I had all my homework caught up on (it was a rare occasion indeed) so I began to really dig through my closet until I found the perfect outfit to wear based off of one of the characters in the movie. And said character, Moondoggie, wears white trousers - and thus, I also wore white trousers all day. And got pizza sauce on them...but I wore them to the theater anyway. It made the evening that much more fun. Oh, and yes, I painted the hat as well, though you cannot see it very well in that picture (you'll just have to take my word for it that it turned out awesome).

So, this coming week the craziness shall continue, I have no doubt about that. I have to leave for work in less than 30 minutes actually (and I haven't eaten yet - oh, the life of a busy college student!) but I have Saturday off for the first time since classes started, and I am definitely going to take advantage of that and sleep in nice and late before I start working on a book review for Religion in America and a paper for Contemporary French Cinema. After work on Sunday I don't work again until Friday, which gives me and my other crazy WU friends to really work hard on getting ready for the convention on Saturday (and try to stay on top of homework, too!)

Sure, it starts to sound like pandemonium, and I wonder sometimes how everything will ever get done - but like I said at the beginning, its better to just go with the flow of things, because somehow it always gets done in the end, and that's the optimistic way to look at things. And one will never get through college without an optimistic attitude, and it certainly helps to develop it early. I mean, yeah, be realistic about everything - but locking yourself in your room pouting about how much you have to do doesn't help the problem get solved. College days are fun, and busy - its a nice balance, in my opinion.

Anyway, until next week - I'm sure the stories shall continue.