The 12 days of midterms....

OK, so I apoligize for the lack of blogging that has occured over the last week or so- things got a little crazy between the huge gap I had between tests, and I was trying to hold off and wait for pictures that my friend Sarah has on her camera from the course of the week (that still have yet to come)...

I am finally done with midterms- atleast until the second round hits in a few weeks on Novemmber 3rd... Having just completed two tests before 10am today made for a lot of studying over the weekend... Saturday was complete with a five hour study session at the downtown Starbucks, while sunday I dragged myself to the Woods coffe shop at Boulevard Park down on the waterfront for another five hours of studying (although I have to say it wasn't too rough given that I was sitting in a big brown leather chair next to a rock fire place overlooking the bay)....

Besides studying, this week was especially social. Before the INN on Tuesday, my host team had a team dinner; complete with tacos and pumpkin carving at Sarah's (who is my host team partner). Sarah, and my small group leader Laura both live at the "Lighthouse" which is just down a few blocks from me. After the pumpkin carving, we carted our pumpkins down the street to the INN for a night of greeting. Rumor has it from the INN staff, Sarah and I have one of the best teams the INN has ever seen this early on in the year (not so surprising when you learn that both Sarah and I were leadership kids in highschool). The pumpkins made for some great laughs as students walked in the door and tried to guess the owners of the pumpkins. After the INN, Sarah talked me, Ben and a few others into coming back to the lighthouse to watch a movie. Needless to say, we did not end up leaving until 1am- and that was before the movie even started. Waking up Wednesday at 6:30 was not the easiest...

Wednesday was a pretty typical day, until Sarah called and wanted me to come over around 9 to watch the movie "Baby Mama" and bake our friend Grant a cake that she owed him from a lost bet. Needless to say, after watching a movie, baking a cake, delievering the cake to Grant's house, and getting suckered in to helping Grant fold his laundry I did not get back until 2am....

The girls in my house were quite surprised with this latest bedtime development as I am often refered to as the old woman in my house- I go to bed early, and get up early...

Things were pretty low key (and tiresome) the rest of the week until Friday night when most of the girls in my house were planning on going to The Fort's pumpkin party. However, as it got closer to heading on over there the girls in my house got tired all of the sudden and decided to bail. I called Sarah to see if she was going, and instead she talks me into going with her and a few friends down to some haunted house downtown. After the haunted house, we went to our friend Scott's and watched "The Strangers" which is pretty much the scariest movie I have seen in a long time....

After that we went home, and I didn't see Sarah for almost a whole 24 hours until Saturday night, when we decided to test out a different church over by the mall that does Saturday night services @ 6m. After church we did a Target run (where I was too poor to buy anything besides chapstick- at least my lips will look good right?)

Later Saturday night, Ben came back and took back the wii having received so much crap from the guys in The Fort to get it back. Not even three hours after taking it though, we were invited over to play wii with the guys..... I predict the wii won't last long at The Fort...

Sarah and I broke our unintentional 5 day streak of seeing eachother yesterday as we both had studying to do. We both were laughing at the fact that we only met at the INN retreat in late September and hang out pretty much all the time. Ben (who is also on our host team) was quick to point out that Sarah and I spend way too much time together- I however, disagree....

I better go and get some lunch seeing as my brain is a little fried from all of the studying and testing of the last few hours....

I will leave you with guys with a video I saw on GMA the other morning regarding Obama and McCain at the Al Smith memorial dinner- I found it amusing...