FYE - Lisa Lynch

Resurrection....

My camera has returned from the Best Buy camera hospital and is right as rain again! (The Best Buy guy took the picture of my recovered camera excitement.) YAY! I missed some vital picture taking moments like Spring Weekend, but I'm definitely fixin to make up for it. Scenes from this weekend, my last of major chillage before summer.

    

Laura came up for a hospitality day on Saturday. She's gonna apply here. It's a bittersweet thought. We had green apple shaved ices (my fav!) at the baseball game and so we took a picture to commemorate the day, as well as Laura's first green apple shaved ice.

Lauren, Ashley, & April were over at Converse like Thursday night for a concert, so Courtney and I went to meet up with them at Krispy Kreme for doughnuts and convo. I was happy to see some friends from home here in Sparkle City for once.

The Theta formal was on Friday night and my fav neighbors were hurrying to get ready. Don't they look pretty?

Saturday was also Terrier Play Day & my mom brought the little girl she mentors, Deandre, to participate. I haven't been in the 2nd or 3rd grade in a while and being that age is ridiculously exhausting, I'm not even sure how I lived through that age to be 19. We had fun getting our faces painting, and going on some spinny ride that was one of the most fun things I've done in a while. I was definitely pooped after a day with her.

So...

This weekend was crazy fun! Shaving cream, swimsuits, sand where it isn't normally, and crazy cool bands. Spring weekend basically rocks, that much more since we're getting to the last few weeks of school now. It's been such a year. I came here wanting to do neuroscience so I could go to med school and be a pediatric neurologist. Now, I think I have found a goal more to my actual liking....get ready for it....I want to be an immigration lawyer...in a perfect world anyway. It's social, it helps people, and it's an issue I actually know a little bit about. I've been schedule planning and jazz, I'm super pumped. Going to talk to my advisor in the morning and the pre-law advisor sometime this week.

Got room assignments for the fall, I'm 2nd floor of Dupre. And since I totally wanted to be in Dupre, I'm pumped. And since I ended up on the same floor with girls that I love and adore, I'm also super pumped. I'm going to miss my hall. I have the coolest hall ever and we're gonna be bummed in like 3 weeks when we have to leave each other, never to be on a hall all together again. :( But still pumped.

It's weird thinking about not being here. I remember I spent like the first month and a half of school wanting to go home; and now I feel like that's where I'm getting ready to leave. The other bummer is that my closest Wofford besties is about an hour and a half away. Atlanta'll will definitely be listed in my summer plans as much as I can make it down there. Hopefully Court'll make it down from WV to see me at least once; and I haven't even begun to make plans with Syd to see her in TN this summer. Oh sadness. I'm not gonna know what to do when I have to quit my Wofford sched cold turkey. No dinners with Dane, no late night snacks with Court, no Syd to wake me up on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Horrible thoughts all. Home'll be an adjustment, but the reunions in the fall will be amazing. Lots of hugging and screaming I'm sure.

Ok, stopping focusing on bummerific stuff. And I did totally make that word up, but it's fine. The fam's coming up this weekend because my lil sis is coming up for some thing, so I'm gonna meet them for the baseball game and just chill. Home next weekend to help Laura get prom ready....I can't believe it! Cross your fingers my camera's back from the Best Buy camera hospital by then! Next weekend to Clemson with Chris and Dane to watch them do a triathalon and offer moral support. Next weekend I'm home for the summer! Crazy ain't it?

Night & Day...

So I got my wish...

I met two lovely girls at Night & Day who read my blog AND like it! YAY, someone who isn't me or one of my bffs cares about my life and so I am utterly and ridiculously excited.

Aleah and I didn't have prospectives, but I had friends who shared so it was okay. I got to hang out with and meet a lot of people who are gonna be in my shoes next year. I totally can't wait. The girls (Kathryn & Sarah) were awesome and we talked to them a lot about the day to day here. They asked us questions and we tried to be as truthful and informative as humanly possible. It was neat. And it was nice to know the answers to the questions. This time last year, I had 800 million questions and it's nice to be on the answering end of the questions instead of on the asking end. So ask away, ya'll. And Facebook me, I ike new people. And if you're Upstate SC, and wanna hang...lemme know cause I love lunch dates! It occurs to me that I wanna be one of those sophmores that all the freshman know and who has half a clue about what going on with those below me. Wofford can be like high school in that way, but I kinda like it. At Clemson, there's no way I'd get an opportunity to know the majority of any class, so I like the option to know a larger percentage of people here. It's a useful characteristic of Wofford, be sure to keep that in mind, prospectives!

History test tomorrow that I actually feel prepped for. Up early cleaning and finishing up editing some paper before the afternoon. Bed time! Night, kids!

It's 5:05 am...

And for the second time, I am in Milliken. Two days in a row. Last night (yesterday morning?) I dragged myself to bed at 5am after a night full of paper writing...both religion and history. In my defense, I did start my history paper before tonight. But, somehow, here I am....at 5am....still writing. Grrr.... I did manage to catch like an hour and a half nap at 215ish. It was nice. Thankfully at around 4, Joe came bounding up to my couch in Milliken to celebrate the progress on his paper with me. Mine was better. ;)

Happily, I don't have class til 1 this afternoon. Sadly, I decided for some strange reason that it was a good idea to schedule a meeting with Dr. Hitchmough this morning about scheduling. I think if I go back to bed, I won't wake back up. This means, I'm probably going to stay up til at least 9am to try and meet with her. Grrr, stupid schedules. I had been doing amazingly well this semester with not staying up til ridiculous hours of the morning doing homework. There went that. AND two days in a row. At least yesterday, I managed to squeeze a decent, consecutive 4 hours and some in. Don't think it's gonna happen today. My plan for Friday is to go to bed at like 3 in the afternoon. Sounds amazing, doesn't it?

Saturday after our meet at Furman, I'm going home!!! For the night, but still....I missed my mommy. And yes, I said it. I'm totally okay with missing my mommy. She was pretty bummed that I didn't manage to come home at all in the 9 days I was galavanting about enjoying my spring break. I was bummed to get a text from my sister while I was out buying souvenirs at the beach, that my mom had to go the ER for chest pains. Scary stuff. Nothing horrible, but still scary. Definitely sucked being in southern GA right then. So, I personally am thrilled about getting to see my mommy with my own two eyes and just feel better about the fact that she's okay, y'know?

Also, my camera wigged out. It won't turn on all the way or something, so it's off on a little visit to Best Buy to see if they can solve its mental issues.

Other breaking news, I have a boot. Don't worry, no official stress fractures. But, the trainer and I decided that some preventative care wil help me finish out the season less painfully. So, yeah. A word of advice in case anyone ever need a boot....wear long pants...and socks on your other foot. I have a lovely gash on my right ankle where I whacked the crap out of it (numerous times) with my booted foot. Supposedly Dane knocked the crap out of his ankle for the 3 weeks he was booted too, so let me just share that tidbit with ya'll just in case.

Oh, today (yesterday??) was exciting because it was Alex's 21st birthday...YAY! We had cake outside of Starbucks & sang & took a lovely group picture that I will at some point have to steal from Sydney. So yay for Alex's birthday.

And Monday we had a track meet. Vs Upstate. It was wicked intense. And I was wicked tired afterward. I'm still really unsure how I'm functioning and making semi-coherent thoughts. I'm waiting to pass out asleep as I'm walking around somewhere tomorrow. I feel like Western Civ and English are going to be especially rough. But after those classes, there's only a cuento for Spanish between me and my nice, warm bed until 1030 Friday morning...YAY!!!!

I'm going to go finish my paper now. I feel mentally revived....kind of. Something tells me that the two Mello Yellos I've consumed tonight probably don't have anything to do with that. But, yay Burwell opens for breakfast in like an hour and a half....geez! I'm out, yo. Wish me luck, all!

P.S. Now it's 5:22 am

In LOVE with St. Simons!

So yeah, St. Simons is amazing.

This morning I went on a bike ride up the road to the veggie stand and bought some squash and a few plums. Saw lots of people who were all so friendly and all said hey. Got a decent workout, too. Since I have an achy leg, I'm not supposed to run/workout on my leg. As a sprinter, this basically means without a weight room there's not really anything I can do. That means that I've been going a little stir-crazy from lack of workout. Happily enough, Dane is a genius and suggested I bike. YAY for biking! A leg workout that doesn't require my feet hitting the ground. This island is awesome to bike around and the veggie stand gives me somewhere to go. It's nice. Anyway, waiting for Dane to get back from his bike ride so we can go to the beach. I leave you with pic I took when we went to the beach Saturday night. Later kids!