Penultimate Weekend
So this past weekend was full of exciting adventures. Friday night was overcrowd lottery, and we ended up doing well. Ryan, Kalle, and I are currently in a double overcrowd in Camm 141, though Kalle and Petey may switch, depending on Petey transferring and what not. That night Lauren and I went out to dinner at Chili's with Ryan and Laura, which was a good time. Our waitress was trying to get us alcohol I think, which was exciting, but we declined. We dropped Ryan and Laura off at the King and Queen Ball (which apparently featured Gene Nichol drunk, which I have to say I've disappointed I missed) and then just drove around for a while, listening to the driving mix that Lauren had made, which was full of excellent musical selections. We came back and I fell asleep at like 11, which was sad.
I woke up the next morning at about 10:30 and hung around not really doing anything until Lauren came over at 2:30 or so. When she showed up, I knew something was wrong, and apparently lottery didn't end up very well for her, so we ended up going to the bookstore to hang out and feel better about things. We ended up sitting in the travel section for a while, looking at books of places we could only dream about going. I think she felt better afterwords, so that was good. When we got back, my aunt and uncle from Virginia Beach called and asked if I had eaten dinner yet, which I had not, so I got to eat at the Blue Talon Bistro, one of the fancy dining establishments in Colonial Williamsburg that college students normally can't afford. I had awesome rotisserie chicken and sorbet for dessert, so definitely a good time. After that was the Wilco concert, which was absolutely incredible. I'd had A Ghost is Born for a while, but had only listened through it maybe twice or so. The show definitely made me want to get more of their stuff, so I'll have to buy Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at some point, since according to my favorite overly pretentious music site it's incredible. After the concert, I caught up with Lauren and she came back to watch The Philadelphia Story with Ryan and Laura, but we all fell asleep like 10 minutes in, and Lauren ended up spending the night which was nice.
Today was rather uneventful; read the petitions at church, ate brunch, checked out all our rooms for next year. Lauren seemed to be okay with her room when we went and visited, so that's good. It's definitely not the most ideal place, but it's close to the Caf (the nice dining hall) and the Rec Center, and I'm probably a five minute walk at most, and it's no more than ten minutes from the farthest academic buildings. Our room looks to be pretty nice; we didn't actually get to see it, but the building itself is really nice, and there's an attic lounge, so that's really cool. After that I fell asleep at Lauren's (I should really learn to not be so tired all the time.) I came back and was trying to fix Ryan's website, which didn't end up so well. And then we had dinner with the Barrett girls (they had made pasta, tomatoes with parmesean, bought bread ends from the Cheese Shop, and had angel food cake with Cool Whip and strawberries so it was definitely a feast.) After that I came back and fixed Ryan's website some more, and then called my parents to check in and headed back over to Barrett for about 45 minutes. Now I'm here, and I should really go to sleep. So I think I will.
Only five days of classes, five exams, and a lab presentation stand in my way of being home. Beach this weekend should be a lot of fun.
I'm also a little more relaxed about my biology grade. She posted the clicker points and I currently have 72 but really should have 100 so I'll get that fixed, and that brings my percentage to a 66%. Which assuming I get an 80% in lab and an 80% on the midterm and final nets me a 73% for the class, whcih is normally a C-, but depending on how she grades the class (she adjusts it to make the average a B-) I have a pretty good shot at a better grade. Hopefully that'll work out. I'm glad I took this class, but it's been a lot of stress.
All my other grades are up in the air. Philosophy is a solid B, maybe a B+. Same with econ, both depending on how I do on the final. Math I'm hoping to pull a B, B+ would be nice, B- would be okay. Japanese should be an A unless I'm forgetting something in my grade. Assuming the lowest grades (A, B, B, B, C) I would get a 2.93. However, if I manage to luck out in all of my classes, that could be as high as a 3.35 (A, B+, B+, B+, B) Really, a 3.0 would be nice. Oh GPA, how you don't really matter.
And for those of you that don't know, my schedule next semester is looking like awesome. I'm taking Elementary Analysis, Applied Statistics, and Advanced Linear Algebra (woo 3 math classes) Ethics, Japanese, and Intro to Accounting. Hopefully this will not kill me. If it does, I'll probably drop ethics first. We'll see though. Still trying to figure out study abroad and what not.
Anyway, I said I was going to sleep a couple minutes ago. Goodnight.