An Hour and Five Minutes NOT Well Spent

Oh how I love Mondays!  It takes me awhile to get into the week.  Today: a great example of this.  So I woke up, early might I add, and went to my classes.  From class I went to lunch at GDH with my friends.  After lunch I was really tired so I came back to the room for a nap.  Like 5 minutes before class started, Blythe came in to get me, so I got out of bed and looked around for my book bag, I didn't see it.  I figured I was just tired so I asked Blythe if she saw it.  Bear in mind I don't have a large room so its not like I could loose it in here.  All of the sudden I realized I left it in GDH... like 3 or 4 hours earlier.  So I darted out of my room to GDH.  Luckily, they left the first set of doors open, and there sat my book bag, in it's little cubby.  

Currently, I am on hold with HP technical support.  I have been on hold for going on 20 minutes.  If anyone has ever seen the Friends episode where Phoebe is on hold for like a day or 2, that's going to be me.  Well, while I'm waiting... want to hear about my weekend?

So here's some excitement!  I got my actual chemistry test back on Friday and I had a note on it from my professor telling me I had gotten the highest grade in the class!! Most of you have probably already heard this due to said excitement, but I'm pretty thrilled!  Can we all take a moment to remember how this kind of thing never happened to me in high school?? 

Thanks. 

Ok, so Friday my friends and I went to Greenville to Takosushi for dinner!  So delicious!!  If anyone is coming up and would like to go to dinner, we can go there for sure!  I drove and navigated with the help of the Garmin without any problems!  Obviously, the lack of navigational skills didn't hit me like it did Anna (the sister).  We then went to Spill the Beans where we met up with Anna, Emily, and Nancy.  Again, it was delicious!!  

Saturday it was Parents Weekend, so my mom and dad came up along with the Rickenbakers, who I was unaware were coming until that morning.  We went to the 1:30 football game which was sweltering!!  When I when the lottery at Bi-Lo, I intend to buy PC some lights for the stadium.  At half time we left, and headed down to Newberry for their football game.  It was at night, so it was much more pleasant!  Although that was a lot of football to take in in one day.  

Sunday, I went Baptist!  It was a very good service.  I have yet to go Lutheran since I've been up here.  Hopefully that will change soon!

So now, an hour and 5 minutes later, I have a working printer.  Special thanks goes out to Gary, who sounded very Irish.  

By the way, the flu is running amuck here at PC!! I am very concerned that I will catch it as rush is coming up, or even worse, during rush and miss rush all together!  Please send positive thoughts this way!

Peace and Love

I Got a 78!

So its not nearly as bad as it could have been!  I got a 78 on my biology test, which in college is a high C!  Sidenote: still getting used to the college grading system.  So I was pretty ok with the grade.  Although I am now required to attend Friday afternoon study sessions.  Wonderful.  

The highlight of my day today would probably be this right here...

On our way to lunch, we stopped by Elizabeth and Sarah Beth's room.  They set out a dollar tied to a string in front of their window so that when people walked by and went to pick it up, they would pull it away.  So we went to lunch and came back and watched this whole thing go down.  It was so hilarious!! Unfortunately, I had to go to lab today, so I was unable to watch for too long.  Here's another one, just because I enjoyed it so much...

402 is hunted! I confirm!  So as several of you may or may not know about my room, I have a hallway and staircase that leads to nowhere.  Well, down that hallway is a very random door that's all of 2ftx 2ft... maybe.  Well the door has a latch that has been shut since the day we moved in.  Yesterday, the door decided to unlatch itself and open and close on its own.  So NOT ok!!!  This follows our TV turning off on its own. 

The door...

Oh, by the way, for those of you who have been reading the blog since the beginning, you may recall the miscommunication about Chinese acrobats coming to PC at the beginning of the year.  Turns out, after checking my CEP dates just now, that Chinese dancers are coming in November.  In case any of you were still wondering.  I know I was. 

Have a great weekend!!

Just Catching You Up

So its been awhile since I last blogged. My apologies.  I guess I was too busy studying my life away.  I had a chemistry test on Friday and a biology test Monday.  It was a little bit ridiculous.  I was up into the wee hours of the morning Thursday night and pretty late on Sunday studying for these things.  But GREAT NEWS!!! I got a 91 on my chemistry test!!!  Really, I am so very excited! Biology, however, is a whole nother story.  I went into the library on Sunday afternoon around 2:00.  I went to dinner and came straight back and stayed until a little after midnight.  So I go to my test the next day, opened it up and there was an entire page of questions that I was clueless on.  Awesome.  So while I have not gotten that test back yet, I feel more than confident that I will be whipping out no 91, but let's all hope for the best.  I find out tomorrow what I made. 

Aside from academia, in other news, I played the lottery for the first time today... at Bilo.  Exciting?  Very. I won my $2 back, but then I decided to buy another one and then lost it.  So sad, but I like to think that $2 will go toward my state scholarships.  Let's see... my tennis future is looking brighter and brighter!  I have found some people who are more on my level to play with.  If nothing else, I get a workout from running across several courts chasing balls.  

Emily came to see me this past weekend!  I wish she would come to PC, but I just don't think that's going to happen. My parents also came up on Saturday for the football game.  It was a pretty fun weekend!  Sunday morning, again, we had every intention of going Lutheran, but we couldn't find the Lutheran church.  So we went Methodist instead.  It was really good!  But then it was time to hit up the library.  Story of my life. Really, I spend so so much time in there.

Random, but I have decided to post some pictures of events since I've been here at PC...

This is move in day... hence why we all look so pretty. 

Kate and myself at Shuckin' and Shaggin'

Dukes of Hazard

The first PC game at Furman

The first PC home game

There's more, but its annoying to upload them, so here's the highlights! 

I know this is pretty scatterbrained, but I promise I will be more on top of things from now on.  A special thank you to Aunt Ann for the mail the other day!!!  Again, I can't tell you how much I enjoy  getting mail! 

Peace and Love

"Oh! Its for people of all levels!"

I went home yesterday and spent the night!  It was so great!  I can't tell you how wonderful it was to be back home! But this morning came, and it was time for me to head back up to Clinton, both the dorm and the town.  I strongly considered missing my 9:00, but I decided against it.  So I got back to Clinton and went to my classes. But then some excitement came into my day.  I was told, lured, call it what you want, into getting involved with club tennis here at PC.  Let's just flash back quickly to my tennis days in like 4th-8th grade.  I never got better.  I was practically told this by my tennis teacher.  So back to today... to quote some of my friends, "Oh don't worry!  This is for people of all levels!" as well as, "Oh, I'm bad too."  Ok, so those were all lies.  I get to the tennis courts after reliving several rough flashbacks from my tennis days, and I see good people.  Not just good people, but like ridiculously good people.  Turns out, the girls that said they weren't really good, just said that as a ploy.  They were numbers 1 and like 5 on their high school teams. So I "played" with all of them, which consisted of me running from the ball or hitting it over the fence.  Needless to say there was no one on my level.  I pitied the people who had to play with me. I don't know that I will be seen on the courts again anytime soon.  Not unless I'm feeling unusually self confident one morning and need something to take me down some self esteem points.

So now I'm going to do some work.  By the way, I'm still in my exercise clothes.  I enjoy making people think I'm athletic, although the people who saw me on the tennis courts today know otherwise... and probably went to their rooms and laughed about it. 

Ok. Peace out.

Mustard from the Sky

So today we had class.  The rest of the world got to celebrate this Labor Day doing NOTING while I woke up at 7:10 to get to class by 10:00... Not too sure why I got up so early.  Probably because I knew I would be dragging. So I went to a fun day of classes and came back to the dorm. A potential swine-er came in so I had to clorox the room.  We had a pretty laid back afternoon.  Then Anna (not the sister) and myself decided to be productive and take a walk around campus.  So we get outside, didn't even get started on our walk and I felt something wet fall on my arm.  There were no clouds in the sky, so I got a little concerned.  I looked down and it was orange bird poop. Like mustard from the sky. Awesome.  Not to get too nasty, but I mean it stained my arm/ my shirt.  SICK. I still have the shirt on by the way.  Not too sure why.  So that grossed me out for awhile, but I mean life goes on.  We still went on our walk.  After dinner we had our weekly Bible study after which I hit up the library.  SUCH a productive night in there!!  

I have a french test tomorrow. Can't wait!!!! 

Also, my mailbox is a beast to get open, and usually once I, or any rando I can get to do it for me in Springs, gets it open, there is no mail in there.  PLEASE send me letters, packages, etc.  I know I must be collecting all kinds of fans on here, so fan mail would be awesome!  

Here is my address.  I am well aware that this is somewhat sketch to put out on the internet, but I mean its not like I live at this address/ this blog only has had 10 views.  So here it is:

Student Box 50431

403 S. Adair St.

Clinton, SC 29325

Thanks in advance for the mail! 

Lots of Love!

Weekends are getting less and less awkward!!

I decided to google "Sarah Derrick freshman blog" to see what would come up and I'm the first result to come up!! How exciting!  I didn't even have to pay any money for that premo spot!  

Anyway, some highlights from my weekend... 

I just had to write an email to a professor who prefers we call him by his first name.  I don't at all feel ok with the situation, so I have always avoided it.  But we have a paper due tomorrow, and while I am well aware that it is somewhat late to be asking questions, I just had to ask him about the assignment.  I thought about using some other address, but I had to call him by his first name in the email.  I'm still feeling awkward about that. 

So in other news, this weekend was the Dukes of Hazard party.  It was very festive!!  Thursday, Callie and myself hit up Hospice (the thrift store) for some clothes for the occasion.  Of course we came across some treasures!  I think the best part of the experience was when we walked into the store and there was a lady standing at the register with a megaphone turning in circles making an announcement that all clothes were 50% off... excluding camo.  Typical Clinton.  Bummer on the camo, but I got 4 shirts for $3.80!! Such a sweet deal!!  So then we ventured into Laurens to find me some shorts.  We found some at Belk (which is free standing... weird) that were already bedazzeled!  Amazing!!  

So Friday came, and Callie, Rachel and I headed to Greenville for dinner which was delicious!  We then went to Spill the Beans which was AMAZING!!  So we came back to Clinton... the town and the dorm and stayed in to watch 13 going on 30.  We both fell asleep pretty early into the movie and woke up to a turned off TV.  Neither one of us turned it off.... weird.  Is 402 haunted?  Dear goodness I hope not!!

So here's some excitement!!  We woke up Saturday morning to find that ALL 3 WASHERS AND DRYERS WERE OPEN!!!!  What are the chances?!?!  I'll just tell you... they are slim!  So we took advantage of the situation and did some laundry.  After that exciting morning we went to Furman for the first PC game!  We only stayed until halftime though because it was so so hot!!  We got back and prepared for Dukes of Hazard.  I had such an array of choices of things to wear... compliments of Hospice, all of them so very classy!  We hit up the party and had so so much fun!!  

So this morning I had every intention of going Lutheran, but I woke up too late.  So I have stayed in most of what I slept in last night all day.  Kind of nasty.  But I have one and a half papers written and have done some biology reading.  So I would say it has been a very productive day!  

Another week starts tomorrow.  BUT I get to go home for the night on Tuesday!!  Words can't describe to you how excited I am about 3 things: 

Having a real meal

Sleeping in a comfortable bed

and TAKING A REAL SHOWER!!!  Soooo exciting!!

Just to let you know... the 4 flights have caught up with me.  I was napping the other day (which has kind of become a routine)  and apparently I woke up half way through my nap screaming due to calf cramps.  I am also having soreness in my outer thighs.  Love the lack of elevator here in Clinton.  

Also, it has been Sound of Music weekend on abc Family.  This has reminded me of my love for the song "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"  I am more than willing to sing this at anyone's wedding, with a name change of course.  Just let me know!  

Freezing Weather and 48 Hours Without Facebook

It has been cold up here in Clinton... both the dorm and the town.  It pretty much happened overnight!  I was not prepared for this sudden change in weather!  I still have mainly warm weather clothes up here with me.  So yesterday, amongst the cold snap, I decided I would go home just to grab some warmer clothing.  However, I took a nap first.  4 hours later, I woke up! It was nearing 5:00. I therefore missed my opportunity to go home.  So my awesome friend, Callie, convinced me that because I had taken a 4 hour nap and had a somewhat sore throat (now thinking about it, probably from these subarctic conditions) that I had swine flu.  So I freaked out for awhile!  Scary times here on Clinton 4th!  But no worries, I went to the health center and they said they couldn't see me. To which I say, that isn't at all helping prevent the spread of any disease!! I feel pretty much fine now, so I'm pretty sure I am swine-less. But on that topic, so far 2 people have been sent home from PC due to the flu, not too sure if it was swine or not.

In other news, I have been sans-facebook for 2 days... 48 hours exactly!  It was for my freshman class about technology.  I so realized over these past 2 days that facebook is for sure an addiction for me!  But, now that it is past midnight, I can get back on there!  Too exciting! 

Tomorrow I have my first 8:00 since the big schedule switch!  This should be entertaining! 

Oh, quick update!  I DID NOT win the grill.  Sad but true. 

Much love!